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Museville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Meigs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43720. It stands on Marshall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ruraldale quadrangle.

Museville within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Museville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Museville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

11 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Museville between 2013 and 2019, burning about 26 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10966
16 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7385
10 March 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6785

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 205 shown

Museums hold 205 specimens collected within 10 miles of Museville between 1916 and 1972: 194 Animalia, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Starrett, J., Adams, William, Adler, K. K. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Tabanus quinquevittatus Wiedemann, 1821Tabanus quinquevittatus Wiedemann, 18211916O.
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916O.
Anthophoridae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Bombus vagans, not of this specimenBombus vagans Smith, 18541916P.R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Colletes nudus, not of this specimenColletes nudus Robertson, 18981916unknown
A photograph of the species Linognathus vituli, not of this specimenLinognathus vituli (Linnaeus, 1758)1920P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Solenopotes capillatus, not of this specimenSolenopotes capillatus Enderlein, 19041920P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Strigiphilus Mjoberg, not of this specimenStrigiphilus Mjoberg, 19101920P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)Harrison Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1931not recordedPhilo, Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1935Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)Philo, Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 17581935Maslowski, K. (Karl) & Dambach, C. A. (Charles A.)Blue Rock Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio

All 205 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Museville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Central Ohio Coal Co. MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ruraldale2.5 miles14
Young Hickory2.7 miles14
High Hill3.5 miles14
Zeno3.5 miles14
Coal Hill4.2 miles14
Confederate Crossroads (historical)4.6 miles14
Gaysport5.0 miles14
Blue Rock5.0 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MusevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134015The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070861. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.