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

Ozark, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Sunsbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43716. The Survey maps it on the Woodsfield quadrangle.

Ozark within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ozark, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Ozark, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Ozark between 2014 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5545
15 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15329
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15819
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12585
26 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4846
22 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4607
17 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4814
30 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources779

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 379 shown

Museums hold 379 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ozark between 1860 and 1975: 368 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.1924L.L. Lehman
Specimen of Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
Specimen of Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.1931F. O. GroverS of Oak point, woods
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1922Thompson W. H.Woodsfield
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Hybopsis micropogon, not of this specimenHybopsis micropogon (Cope, 1865)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township

All 379 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Ozark in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 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
April 2013Thunderstorm WindOzark$1,000Law enforcement reported trees down on Ozark Eddy Bridge Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOzark-Local police reported a tree down on Ozark-Eddy Bridge Road.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Jerusalem1.8 miles14
Wilson2.2 miles14
Beallsville2.8 miles14
Hope Ridge (historical)3.3 miles14
Coats3.4 miles14
Malaga4.1 miles13
Miltonsburg4.4 miles13
Kerr4.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076586. 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.