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

Ottokee Station, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43567. The Survey maps it on the Wauseon quadrangle.

Ottokee Station within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ottokee Station, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Ottokee Station, surveyed 1911

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

2 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ottokee Station between 2011 and 2020, burning about 16 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15731
29 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,065 shown

Museums hold 1,065 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ottokee Station between 1894 and 1975: 1,046 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, CHAS M BUTLER, CLARENCE CLARK 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 Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Edward WilkinsonWauseon
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gomphus fraternus, not of this specimenGomphus fraternus (Say, 1840)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Sympetrum corruptum, not of this specimenSympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631902not recordedWauseon
Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Pucciniastrum americanum, not of this specimenPucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur1902W.A. Kellerman
Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 19161902HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, not of this specimenTamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA

All 1,065 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
Dover Glen0.7 miles15
Ottokee1.1 miles15
Timber Creek2.4 miles15
Tedrow2.7 miles15
Wauseon3.6 miles15
Advance3.6 miles15
Inlet4.0 miles15
Oakshade4.8 miles15

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 Q122570110The 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 1062927. 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.