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

Newmans, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43342. It stands on Davids Run. The Survey maps it on the Prospect quadrangle.

Newmans within Marion County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newmans, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Newmans, surveyed 1924

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Newmans between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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
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
26 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 397 shown

Museums hold 397 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newmans between 1892 and 1975: 385 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Acker, G., Baumgartner, L. 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 Catocala habilis Grote, 1872Catocala habilis Grote, 18721959not recordedCamp Owens
Specimen of Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965Elasmus albizziae Burks, 19651964J. Peacock[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1892E E BogueProspect
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Marion
A photograph of the species Helminthosporium teres, not of this specimenHelminthosporium teres Sacc.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Marion
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Prospect
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919MCFARLAND F. T.Marion
A photograph of the species Photinus pyralis, not of this specimenPhotinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767)1923not recordedMarion
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Grand Twp: along Tymochtee Cr., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Montgomery Twp.: Tymochtee Creek trib., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Cyprinus carpio, not of this specimenCyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 17581930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Scioto River, within Green Camp township, near Green Camp, Green Camp township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Scioto River, within Green Camp township, near Green Camp, Green Camp township

All 397 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Newmans: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fleming PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fleming PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Green Camp Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Camp Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Prospect Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Prospect SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ri Alto PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Union Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms nearby

1 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Newmans in 1 storm report between 2015 and 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNewmans$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees off of State Route 4 and Prospect-Upper Sandusky Road South in southern Marion County.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Prospect2.3 miles12
Centerville2.8 miles12
Gast Corner2.9 miles12
Owens3.1 miles13
Bethlehem (historical)3.2 miles12
Quarry Estates3.4 miles13
Green Camp3.4 miles13
Country Club Hills4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1043866. 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.