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

New England, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45778. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.

New England within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New England, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of New England, surveyed 1904

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

30 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of New England between 2006 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 1 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5926
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15774
7 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresWayne National ForestEDDIE
23 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning7.3 acresWayne National ForestSCATTER
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,127 shown

Museums hold 1,127 specimens collected within 10 miles of New England between 1896 and 1975: 937 Animalia, 129 Plantae, 52 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, A.D. Selby 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 Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ambrosia bidentata Michx.Ambrosia bidentata Michx.1969William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Melasmia Lév., 18461902Kellerman, W.A.Athens
A photograph of the species Erasmoneura vulnerata, not of this specimenErasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)1905not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)1905H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura ardens (McAtee, 1920)1905H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura campora (Robinson, 1924)1905not recorded
Eratoneura contracta (Beamer, 1931)1905H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura hartii (Gillette, 1898)1905H.T. Osborn

All 1,127 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2019

The National Weather Service names New England in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Flash FloodNew England$10,000US 50 was closed near Guysville due to a combination of flooding along creeks and streams that drain into the Hocking River and a land slide near State Route 329.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNew England$500A tree was blown down across Mush Run Road.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindNew England-Three separate locations with tree contact resulted in approximately sixty customers without power.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Canaanville2.8 miles14
Cole3.0 miles14
Stewart3.0 miles14
Guysville3.2 miles14
Kilvert3.2 miles14
Stringtown3.3 miles14
Broadwell3.9 miles14
Big Run3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076505. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.