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

Okey, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45678. The Survey maps it on the Mercerville quadrangle.

Okey within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Okey, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Okey, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

70 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Okey between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,082 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning17
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestWILGUS
5 September 2020Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15824
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1661
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest790
27 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13906
6 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4206
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 208 shown

Museums hold 208 specimens collected within 10 miles of Okey between 1840 and 1972: 195 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster, Cooper, C. (Carolyn) 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 Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
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 Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1921George C. WitheyDeering, 11 miles east of
A photograph of the species Holcocephala calva, not of this specimenHolcocephala calva (Loew, 1872)1926C. Kennedy[not stated]
A photograph of the species Cremastus Gravenhorst, not of this specimenCremastus Gravenhorst, 18291927L. Stearns[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio, USA
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Wolfram, G. (George)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp

All 208 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
Rappsburg2.2 miles15
Saundersville2.2 miles14
Lecta2.8 miles14
Greasy Ridge3.0 miles14
Yarico3.1 miles14
Polkadotte3.1 miles16
Suiter4.0 miles15
Wilgus4.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1082377. 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.