Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Munsville, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in White Eyes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43824. The Survey maps it on the Coshocton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Munsville within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Munsville (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Munsville (historical), surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires nearby

20 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Munsville (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	10466
21 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15565
19 April 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	962
17 April 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,296 shown

Museums hold 1,296 specimens collected within 10 miles of Munsville (historical) between 1846 and 1974: 593 Plantae, 574 Animalia, 119 Fungi, 4 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Amanita flavorubescens G.F.Atk.	1942	Modenke	White Eyes; North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Bulgaria rufa Schwein.	1942	H. Moldenke	Coshocton, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd	1942	H. Moldenke	Coshcoton; N. Appl. Exp. Watershed, near Coshocton
Tortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu	1846	W. S. Sullivant
Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1892	No Person (Birds)	Coshocton Co
Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1898	Williamson, E. B.	Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton
Hemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1903	Sterki, Victor	Coshocton

All 1,296 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fresno	3.2 miles	16
Chili	3.3 miles	16
Canal Lewisville	3.5 miles	16
Keene	3.6 miles	16
Morgan Run	4.2 miles	16
Riverview Estates	4.2 miles	16
Pearl	4.3 miles	16
Hardscrabble	4.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067515. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.