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

Nova, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44859. The Survey maps it on the Nova quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Nova within Ashland County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nova, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Nova, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

3 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Nova between 2020 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning2
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
18 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15782
8 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15905
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15901

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 117 shown

Museums hold 117 specimens collected within 10 miles of Nova between 1897 and 1971: 80 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea, David F. Van Haverbeke 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 Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1897Ashcroft, G.B.; O., BereaAlbion
A photograph of the species Mentha spicata, not of this specimenMentha spicata L.1897G. B. AshcroftAlbion
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1905Fair D. R.Ruggles
Septoria pyricola Desm.1905Fair D. R.Ruggles
A photograph of the species Sphaeropsis malorum, not of this specimenSphaeropsis malorum (Berk.) Berk.1905Fair D. R.Ruggles
A photograph of the species Amphiagrion saucium, not of this specimenAmphiagrion saucium (Burmeister, 1839)1916not recordedSullivan
A photograph of the species Conocephalus attenuatus, not of this specimenConocephalus attenuatus (Scudder, 1869)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Vermilion River, TR 608 RM 62.1, 1.14 miles west of Savannah OH, Clear Creek township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Jerome Fork tributary, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Muddy Fork, (headwaters) Jackson township, near Polk, Jackson township

All 117 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 Nova: 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
BiglowClayProducer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms nearby

11 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Nova in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
February 2011FloodNova$500,000Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to widespread flooding across Ashland County. Rainfall totals across the county ranged from one to three inches on February 27th and 28th. Up to ten inches of heavy snow was on the ground at the onset of the rain. This snow rapidly melted as temperatures warmed into the 50s on the 28th. Up to an additional inch of water equivalent rainfall was released from the melted snow. Hundreds of homes in the county sustained damage, mainly from basement flooding. Many roads had to be closed because of the the flooding.
November 2017Tornado (EF0)Nova$50,000An EF0 tornado touched down about a half mile west of Nova. The tornado knocked over or uprooted many trees along it's path. The tornado damaged the roof of a store on the west end of Nova. A farm supply store along the railroad tracks on the north end of the town lost a section of roofing. A nearby grain bin was also damaged. The tornado lifted just after crossing State Route 511. The damage path for this storm was just over a half mile in length.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNova$50,000Many trees were reported down. Several homes were damaged after trees fell onto them.
June 2008HailNova$25,000Golf ball size hail was observed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindNova$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees near Nova and Sullivan.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNova$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree.
June 2011HailNova-Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2011HailNova-Thunderstorms produced a swath of nickel to quarter size hail.
September 2010HailNova-Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail.
May 2007HailNova-Penny size hail was observed.
June 2005HailNova-Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Sullivan4.4 miles12
Ruggles4.7 miles12
Herefork5.2 miles12
Savannah5.4 miles16
Bailey Lake6.4 miles16
Polk7.5 miles12
Nankin7.5 miles16
Albion8.4 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on NovaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2002726The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077533. 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.