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

Panhandle, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43910. It stands on North Branch Cross Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smithfield quadrangle.

Panhandle within Jefferson County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Panhandle, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Panhandle, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Panhandle between 2003 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12910
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12912
4 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12908
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13765
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources586
25 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 367 shown

Museums hold 367 specimens collected within 10 miles of Panhandle between 1876 and 1974: 277 Animalia, 71 Plantae, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, Adams, W. 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 Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Circus cyaneus, not of this specimenCircus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1902W. A. Kellerman
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Puccinia myrrhis, not of this specimenPuccinia myrrhis Alb. & Schwein.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills

All 367 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
Unionport1.2 miles18
Fairplay2.8 miles18
Bloomingdale2.9 miles18
Parlett3.5 miles18
Annapolis3.6 miles17
Broadacre4.6 miles18
Chandler4.9 miles18
Belvedere5.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062930. 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.