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Olive Green, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sharon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. It stands on Browns Knob. The Survey maps it on the Caldwell South quadrangle.

Olive Green within Noble 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 Olive Green, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Olive Green, surveyed 1909

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.

Fires nearby

15 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Olive Green between 2009 and 2019, burning about 42 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15265
28 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4965
18 April 2016Recreation and ceremony25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4728
14 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14385
25 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7531
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14705
18 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 91 shown

Museums hold 91 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olive Green between 1902 and 1974: 59 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M., Adler, K. K., Tilley, S. G. & Wood 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 Daedalea ambigua, not of this specimenDaedalea ambigua Berk.1902Lloyd C. G.Glenwood
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Pimephales vigilax, not of this specimenPimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township

All 91 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 Olive Green: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Ava PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Noble 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
Hoskinsville2.2 miles13
Sharon2.7 miles13
Renrock (historical)3.2 miles14
Slaters4.3 miles13
Scott (historical)4.4 miles13
Belle Valley4.5 miles13
Rich Valley4.5 miles13
Florence4.5 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.

Wikipedia article on Olive GreenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134071The 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 1065201. 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.