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New Rumley, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rumley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43986. It stands on Lick Fork. The Survey maps it on the Scio quadrangle.

New Rumley within Harrison County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 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 Rumley, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Rumley, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 printed 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 near this place

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of New Rumley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 74 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12705
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15189
23 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources820
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 63 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Rumley between 1889 and 1971: 44 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Conan J. Taylor, Dalton, C., Dalton, J. (J) & Dalton, T. 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 Ulmus americana L.Ulmus americana L.1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Specimen of Uncinula macrospora PeckUncinula macrospora Peck1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
A photograph of the species Oxalis stricta, not of this specimenOxalis stricta L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Cardamine bulbosa, not of this specimenCardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1905Ortmann, A.E.Bowerston
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1919Ortmann, Arnold EConotton
Syrphidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA
Pleurotus ulmarius (Bull.) P.Kumm.1927not recordedBowerston

All 63 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Rumley in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Rumley$2,000Emergency management reported large branches down.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Jewett2.7 miles14
Scio2.9 miles12
Hanover3.2 miles14
Germano4.5 miles16
Stacy (historical)5.3 miles14
Skit5.8 miles17
Cadiz Junction6.0 miles17
Conotton6.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065136. 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.