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

Palermo, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44615. It stands on Semple Run. The Survey maps it on the Bowerston quadrangle.

Palermo within Carroll County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Palermo, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Palermo, surveyed 1902

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

17 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Palermo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 39 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
1 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4986
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14525
1 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 159 shown

Museums hold 159 specimens collected within 10 miles of Palermo between 1905 and 1975: 149 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, E. J., Bolin, F. (Frank), Bolin, F. A. (Franklin A.) 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 Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1970Jones, G.T.moist wooded river valley west of Leesville
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Cardamine bulbosa, not of this specimenCardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1905Ortmann, A.E.Bowerston
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Pleurotus ulmarius, not of this specimenPleurotus ulmarius (Bull.) P.Kumm.1927not recordedBowerston
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek, within Warren township, near Roswell, Warren township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek tributary, within Orange township, near Leesville, Orange township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek tributary, at Sherrodsville, ~0.4 mi SW of Sherrodsville, Orange township
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1929MB Trautman & asstConotton Creek, trib of the Tuscarawas River at jct of Conotton & McGuire Creeks, Orange Twp
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek, within Warren township, near Roswell, Warren township
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB Trautman & asstConotton Creek, trib of the Tuscarawas River at jct of Conotton & McGuire Creeks, Orange Twp
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Indian Fork, within Monroe township, near Dellroy, Monroe township

All 159 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Palermo: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Conotton Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Conotton Valley QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms nearby

3 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Palermo in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2015Flash FloodPalermo$150,000Emergency management reported water flowing out of the spillway from Stoney Creek Dam and flooding McGuire Creek down to Leesville lake. SR 37 and East Side drive were washed out in spots. Sand and gravel were washed into basement of one home.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindPalermo$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
May 2016HailPalermo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Palermo-on-the-Lakes0.9 miles16
Rockwood Park0.9 miles16
Grampian Hills1.5 miles16
Piney View1.7 miles16
Lakeshore Park1.9 miles13
Glens Cottage Area2.0 miles13
Leesville Glens2.0 miles13
Thornhill2.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062929. 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.