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

New Jerusalem, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jerusalem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43412. The Survey maps it on the Reno Beach quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

New Jerusalem within Lucas County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 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 Jerusalem (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of New Jerusalem (historical), surveyed 1900

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

13 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of New Jerusalem (historical) between 2013 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15811
30 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15765
25 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15763
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15677
22 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOttawa National Wildlife RefugePOACHER HIGHWAY FIRE
25 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15522
9 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15919
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15920

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 623 shown

Museums hold 623 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Jerusalem (historical) between 1892 and 1975: 599 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, Al Szuch, Anson A. Hinkley 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
A photograph of the species Moxostoma macrolepidotum, not of this specimenMoxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Cambarus diogenes, not of this specimenCambarus diogenes Girard, 18521894C. RutterToledo, Presque Isle
A photograph of the species Esox Linnaeus, not of this specimenEsox Linnaeus, 17581894C. RutterOhio, Toledo, Presque Isle
A photograph of the species Esox lucius, not of this specimenEsox lucius Linnaeus, 17581894C. RutterOhio, Toledo, Presque Isle
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo
A photograph of the species Lepisosteus osseus, not of this specimenLepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894C. RutterOhio, Toledo, Presque Isle
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1894not recordedToledo, Cedar Point
Micropterus Lacepède, 18021894C. RutterOhio, Toledo, Presque Isle
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931894C. RutterOhio, Cedar Point, Toledo

All 623 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Yondota0.5 miles14
Bono1.8 miles14
Reno Beach2.4 miles14
Lakemont Landing2.6 miles14
Lakeland2.8 miles14
Howard Farms Beach3.2 miles11
Curtice3.7 miles16
Niles Beach4.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070565. 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.