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

Northwood, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45669. It stands on Middle Paddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barboursville quadrangle.

Northwood within Lawrence County

Then and now

1892 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Northwood, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Northwood, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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

146 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Northwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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 burning51
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
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
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1822
19 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRUSSELL CREEK
24 July 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryEAST PEA RIDGE
16 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8546
17 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry5600 BLOCK RT. 2
9 May 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryARACOM ROAD
6 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryBIG 7 MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 750 shown

Museums hold 750 specimens collected within 10 miles of Northwood between 1840 and 1974: 532 Animalia, 117 Plantae, 78 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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 Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.WinterMicrosphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1892W.A. KellermanSymmes Creek
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Eragrostis reptans, not of this specimenEragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees1880T Meehan
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedGuyandotte River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1903Beale J. M.Guyandotte
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Brooks Fred E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1904Brooks F. E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Haematoloechus longiplexus, not of this specimenHaematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 19021905Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David ZamparoHuntington
A photograph of the species Cladosporium carpophilum, not of this specimenCladosporium carpophilum Thüm.1906C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze1909Summers, T. B.Huntington
A photograph of the species Coprinus Pers., not of this specimenCoprinus Pers., 17971909SambertBarboursville
Marssonina populi (Lib.) Magnus1909Sheldon John L.Huntington

All 750 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Northwood: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Miller Estates0.3 miles19
Cranford0.4 miles19
Home Park0.4 miles19
Mott0.5 miles19
Belle Court0.6 miles19
Riverview Estates0.6 miles19
Rome0.6 miles19
Gardner Terrace0.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050503. 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.