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

Orland, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45654. It stands on West Branch Raccoon Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Plymouth quadrangle.

Orland within Vinton County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orland, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Orland, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

5 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Orland between 2013 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
18 July 2020Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15791
21 April 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources945
21 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 October 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15849

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 785 shown

Museums hold 785 specimens collected within 10 miles of Orland between 1900 and 1975: 660 Animalia, 72 Fungi, 52 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Arden R. Gaufin, Atkinson 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 Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Calobata antennaepes Say, 18231900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Capnochroa LeConte, 18621900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Cephalops Fallén, 18101900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 785 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Orland in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2011FloodOrland$2,000The headwaters of Raccoon Creek overflowed across roads. Sections of Route 356 were closed near Bolins Mills. Route 328 was also closed northwest of Zaleski.
June 2017FloodOrland-Following flash flooding earlier in the day, portions Raccoon Creek and the West Branch of Raccoon Creek remained flooded as water worked through the water system. State Route 56 near Orland and State Route 328 south of New Plymouth remained closed through the afternoon.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOrland-Trees fell along Route 56.

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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
New Plymouth1.5 miles15
Mount Pleasant1.9 miles15
Hue4.3 miles15
Siverly4.7 miles15
Creola5.2 miles15
Hope6.4 miles15
Zaleski7.1 miles15
Stella7.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076580. 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.

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.