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

Odell, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43749. It stands on Clear Fork. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham quadrangle.

Odell within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Odell, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Odell, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

13 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Odell between 2011 and 2020, burning about 10 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15270
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15174
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14410
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11240
10 April 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14408
11 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14407
6 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6729

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 132 shown

Museums hold 132 specimens collected within 10 miles of Odell between 1902 and 1975: 62 Animalia, 58 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W.; Adams, S., Adams, William; Adams, Sue 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 Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.1922F. O. GroverBlack swamp
Specimen of Poria pulchella (Schwein.) CookePoria pulchella (Schwein.) Cooke1922F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
A photograph of the species Valsa nivea, not of this specimenValsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.1906Wilson C. B.Oberlin near Black Swamp
A photograph of the species Taphrina caerulescens, not of this specimenTaphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul.1912Bartenstein T. E.Warrentown
A photograph of the species Isoetes muricata, not of this specimenIsoetes muricata Durieu1913L. S. Hazel M, D.D. HopkinsBrady's Lake.
Specimen of Clavaria kunzei Fr.Clavaria kunzei Fr.1923Treat, DorothyBirmingham
A photograph of the species Polyporus caesius, not of this specimenPolyporus caesius (Schrad.) Fr.1923Nicholson LawrenceVermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. Frondose Woods along
A photograph of the species Stereum rameale, not of this specimenStereum rameale (Pers.) Burt1923Grover F. O.Vermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. in Woods along
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Center Twp, Guernsey Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB TrautmanSugar Tree Fork, center of Liberty Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanSugar Tree Fork, center of Liberty Twp.

All 132 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
Birmingham2.7 miles17
North Salem3.7 miles15
Brady4.5 miles17
Winterset4.5 miles17
Clio (historical)5.0 miles15
Kimbolton5.1 miles15
Warrentown5.7 miles17
Tyner5.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049036. 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.