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

Outville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43062. The Survey maps it on the Millersport quadrangle.

Outville within Licking County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Outville, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Outville, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Outville between 2010 and 2020, burning about 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15708
15 April 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15709
4 October 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15838

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,605 shown

Museums hold 2,605 specimens collected within 10 miles of Outville between 1843 and 1975: 2,303 Animalia, 221 Fungi, 52 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Philomachus pugnax, not of this specimenPhilomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Jasper, T. (Theodore)Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,605 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Outville in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2011Tornado (EF0)Outville$60,000The tornado touched down in two locations within a mile. At the first location the damage included the removal of part of a roof of a larger metal sized garage. In addition, a supporting post was snapped, one side of the building was blown inward, and metal doors on the opposite side were blown outward. There was also a smaller garage with major damage to a metal door. About four to five large trees were uprooted in this area as well. The circulation was not on the ground for the entire path. At the second location where damage occurred, the tornado removed a large section of metal and wood roofing from a large barn. The debris was spread up to one-quarter of a mile downwind from the barn. In addition, there were three to four pieces of the barn debris impaled in the ground. A door was removed from a smaller storage shed and some damage occurred to one corner of a house where part of the roof was lifted up. The damage at these locations indicated wind speeds ranged from 75 to 80 miles per hour.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindOutville$40,000Several roofs were damaged and a storage shed was blown off its foundation due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Siding was also ripped off of a building due to the winds.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOutville$2,000Several medium sized trees were snapped to the ground.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOutville$2,000Branches approximately four inches at the base were broken off of the top of a silver maple, and were strewn across a ten foot wide driveway.
June 2019FloodOutville-Several roads in western Licking County were under water from flooding, including Deeds Road and Blacks Road.
July 2018HailOutville-no account filed
July 2014HailOutville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Sunshine Park1.1 miles11
Happy Homes1.4 miles11
Wooded Hills2.3 miles11
Kirkersville2.5 miles11
Beechwood Trails3.5 miles10
Pinecrest Estates3.9 miles11
Har-Win Acres4.1 miles11
Pataskala4.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065225. 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.