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

Obad, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vinton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Obad within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Obad (historical), surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Obad (historical), surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

42 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Obad (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 154 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2789
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15269
21 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15784
28 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15764
2 June 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 183 shown

Museums hold 183 specimens collected within 10 miles of Obad (historical) between 1900 and 1974: 120 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 24 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Bryant, J.C. 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 Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 19021900[Not Stated]Vinton
Specimen of Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838Chrysops niger Macquart, 18381900not recorded
Specimen of Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.KernGymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern1901Kellerman, W.A.Vinton
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Arthromacra aenea, not of this specimenArthromacra aenea1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus Meigen, not of this specimenChrysotus Meigen, 18241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus distinctus, not of this specimenChrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 19241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Liancalus genualis Loew, 18611900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 183 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
Edna (historical)1.9 miles11
Vinton2.0 miles10
Woods Mill2.6 miles10
Glen Summitt2.9 miles10
Durgan3.2 miles12
Ewington3.4 miles12
Alice4.0 miles12
Harrisburg4.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067563. 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.