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Ollins Corners, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sheffield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44047. The Survey maps it on the Gageville quadrangle.

Ollins Corners within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ollins Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Ollins Corners, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

4 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ollins Corners between 2020 and 2020, burning about 4 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 burning4

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
4 July 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15767
25 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15702
7 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15895
21 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15999

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashtabula County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 814 shown

Museums hold 814 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ollins Corners between 1872 and 1975: 745 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Fuller, A. Woolman, Baumgardner, L. 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 Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.1872L. B. Tuckerman
Specimen of Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Riccia fluitans, not of this specimenRiccia fluitans L.1892E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chelydra serpentina, not of this specimenChelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedKINGSVILLE, CONNEAUT CREEK
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 18571893not recordedKingsville, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1893A. WoolmanConneaut Creek, Kingsville, Ohio

All 814 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
Bulah1.2 miles12
Sheffield Center1.7 miles12
Gageville3.2 miles12
Denmark Center3.3 miles12
Gould4.3 miles20
Plymouth4.5 miles12
Kelloggsville4.8 miles13
Anderson (historical)4.9 miles20

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 Q122570290The 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 1065856. 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.