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

Olszeski Town, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43917. It stands on Long Run. The Survey maps it on the Dillonvale quadrangle.

Olszeski Town within Jefferson County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Olszeski Town, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Olszeski Town, surveyed 1905

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

12 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Olszeski Town between 2003 and 2019, burning about 70 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4385
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3629
27 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 157 shown

Museums hold 157 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olszeski Town between 1876 and 1974: 142 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, C.H. Kennedy, Calkins, W. W. 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 Erysiphe polygoni DC.Erysiphe polygoni DC.1902W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Puccinia myrrhis Alb. & Schwein.Puccinia myrrhis Alb. & Schwein.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Circus cyaneus, not of this specimenCircus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Ionaspis lacustris, not of this specimenIonaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni1893Calkins, W. W.Short Creek
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1919Ortmann, Arnold ENew Alexandria
A photograph of the species Taxonus pallicoxus, not of this specimenTaxonus pallicoxus1924C.H. Kennedy
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recordedSmithfield
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH

All 157 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
Dunglen0.6 miles17
Dillonvale0.7 miles17
Pine Valley1.3 miles17
Mount Pleasant1.4 miles17
Long Run1.4 miles17
Startle (historical)1.6 miles17
Deyarmonville1.9 miles17
Emerson2.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057900. 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.