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

Omega, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45690. It stands on Wilson Run. The Survey maps it on the Waverly North quadrangle.

Omega within Pike County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Omega, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Omega, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 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.

Fires nearby

71 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Omega between 2006 and 2020, burning about 223 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15249
4 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15248
25 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1901
23 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15869
31 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15247

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,093 shown

Museums hold 1,093 specimens collected within 10 miles of Omega between 1889 and 1975: 865 Animalia, 215 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed) 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 compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1889C. J. HerrickWaverly
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Clayton, W. M.Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA

All 1,093 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 Omega: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Seal Builders Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms nearby

4 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Omega in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2007Tornado (EF0)Omega$25,000A tornado touched down briefly just southwest of the town of Omega. Two barns had portions of their roofs lifted off. The garage doors to both barns were collapsed inward. Two softwood trees were snapped at their bases near the barns. This tornado was rated EF-0.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmega$5,000A few trees and power lines were downed.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindOmega$3,000Several large limbs downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOmega$1,000A tree was knocked down along Watson Road.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Bristol Village3.3 miles13
Kilgore Estates3.5 miles13
Waverly Estates3.8 miles13
Waverly Heights3.9 miles13
Waverly4.3 miles13
Glen Jean4.5 miles13
Cars Run (historical)4.5 miles13
Green Acres4.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065205. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.