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

New Town, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Ward Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43144. It lies in Spencer Hollow. The Survey maps it on the New Straitsville quadrangle.

New Town within Hocking County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 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 Town, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of New Town, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

39 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of New Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning12
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3

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 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWayne National ForestSNAKE HOLLOW
25 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15833
19 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestARCHERS FORK FIRE
20 August 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestLOOP
13 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWayne National ForestMONDAY CREEK HELIPAD
7 April 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution54 acresWayne National ForestBURTON
4 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestUTAH INTERSECTION FI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

10 of 41 shown

Museums hold 41 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Town between 1916 and 1973: 31 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 2 Fungi. 10 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Cooke, W. B.; Cooke, V. G., DAVID M SEVER, Davis, H.A.; Davis, 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
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631916not recorded
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)New Straitsville, Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1935Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)Ward Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Asplenium montanum, not of this specimenAsplenium montanum Willd.1935Wood, R.Conkle's Hollow State Park
A photograph of the species Sweltsa lateralis, not of this specimenSweltsa lateralis (Banks, 1911)1936W.C. Stehr
A photograph of the species Rana sylvatica, not of this specimenRana sylvatica LeConte, 18251948H WALTERS AND M FITZMAURICE4 MI E N E OF LOGAN
Ranidae1948M FITZMAURICE4 MI E N E OF LOGAN
Polygonum tenue Michx.1949Davis, H.A.; Davis, T.In cinders along RR at Nelsonville

All 41 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
Murray City0.8 miles15
Coalgate1.3 miles15
Consol (historical)1.4 miles15
New Pittsburg1.4 miles15
Jobs1.5 miles15
Blatchford1.7 miles15
Orbiston2.4 miles21
Monday2.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076512. 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.