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

New Moscow, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Virginia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43812. The Survey maps it on the Conesville quadrangle.

New Moscow within Coshocton County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

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 Moscow, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Moscow, surveyed 1908

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

16 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of New Moscow between 2013 and 2020, burning about 225 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony1
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
16 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8306
16 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8625
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15157
18 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4745
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11685
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13066
1 April 2014Debris and open burning35 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 922 shown

Museums hold 922 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Moscow between 1846 and 1974: 749 Animalia, 107 Plantae, 62 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1942Harold N. Moldenkenear coshocton
Specimen of Cercospora barbareae (Sacc.) ChuppCercospora barbareae (Sacc.) Chupp1943Lawrence J. King; L.O. OverholtsWatershed 130
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lampsilis fasciola, not of this specimenLampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 18201903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 922 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 New Moscow: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Bowerston PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton County

Storms nearby

4 since 1999

The National Weather Service names New Moscow in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Moscow$5,000Sheriffs office reported numerous trees down but was too busy to give exact location.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Moscow$5,000Several trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2014FloodNew Moscow$1,000A trained spotter reported flooding on County Road 6 due to Mill Fork Creek out of its banks.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Moscow-A local resident reported trees uprooted.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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
Pleasantville (historical)1.6 miles14
Willowbrook (historical)1.8 miles14
Tyrone2.9 miles16
Wakatomika4.1 miles11
Conesville4.7 miles14
Franklin4.8 miles14
Tyndall4.8 miles14
Cooperdale5.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063411. 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.

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.