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Olde Falls Village, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Falls Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. It stands on Nob Hill. The Survey maps it on the Zanesville West quadrangle.

Olde Falls Village within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Olde Falls Village, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Olde Falls Village, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Falls township, in the words of 1882.

1882, Falls Township

Sabbath School In Early Times

Archibald McCann was very devoted to the welfare of the young people of his neighborhood, and on Sabbath gave his whole time to teaching ; opening school in the morning, and continuing all day - in studying the Bible. Mr. McCann was drowned in the canal at Zanesville, on the night of March 29th, 1839. "^^^ drawbridge had been left open, and, the night being dark, he did not discover it, and, walking off, fell into the water.

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Fires nearby

44 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Olde Falls Village between 2012 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning25
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15264
1 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15236
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15772
2 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12325
2 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12945
19 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12326
16 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15749
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15752

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 665 shown

Museums hold 665 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olde Falls Village between 1866 and 1974: 550 Animalia, 81 Plantae, 24 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. M., Adler, K. K. 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 Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Arabis hesperidoides, not of this specimenArabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray1866Day, D.F.Dresden
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston

All 665 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Olde Falls Village: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Zanesville, OhioIronProducer
Baker Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Baker Sand Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Seville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seville Road Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum 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
Pine Ridge0.2 miles13
Meadowbrook0.6 miles13
Dillon Falls1.5 miles13
Northwood1.9 miles13
Laurel Ridge2.0 miles13
Avalon Heights2.1 miles13
Harding Heights2.3 miles13
North Zanesville2.4 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122555066The 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 2771103. 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.