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

Paris Court East, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43072. The Survey maps it on the Thackery quadrangle.

Paris Court East within Champaign County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Paris Court East, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Paris Court East, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Paris Court East between 2002 and 2002, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 March 2002Debris and open burning25 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,071 shown

Museums hold 1,071 specimens collected within 10 miles of Paris Court East between 1842 and 1975: 839 Animalia, 188 Plantae, 35 Fungi, 7 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross, A. T. Hotchkiss 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 × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.1874Beardslee, H.C.Cedar Swamp
Specimen of Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Radula obconica Sull.Radula obconica Sull.1877J. E. Biddlecome
A photograph of the species Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris, not of this specimenPylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) W.R.Buck1842W. S. SullivantCedar Swamps, 6 mi S of Urbana
A photograph of the species Ctenidium malacodes, not of this specimenCtenidium malacodes Mitt.1876H. J. BiddlecomeCedar Swamp
A photograph of the species Ctenidium molluscum, not of this specimenCtenidium molluscum (Hedw.) Mitt.1876E. J. Spence10.5 miles north of Springfield
A photograph of the species Geocalyx graveolens, not of this specimenGeocalyx graveolens (Schrad.) Nees1876not recordedCedar Swamp, near Urbana
A photograph of the species Thuidium delicatulum, not of this specimenThuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1876H. J. BiddlecomeCedar Swamp
A photograph of the species Thuidium tamariscinum, not of this specimenThuidium tamariscinum (Hedw.) Schimp.1876not recordedCedar Swamp
Trichocolea biddlecomiae Austin1876H. J. BiddlecomeCedar Swamp
A photograph of the species Amblystegium serpens, not of this specimenAmblystegium serpens (Hedw.) Schimp.1877not recordedCedar Swamp
Aneura pinguis (L.) Dumort.1877not recordedCedar Swamp, Urbana

All 1,071 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
Saint Paris0.3 miles13
Paris Court West1.5 miles13
Millerstown2.9 miles13
Darnell3.8 miles12
Grandview Heights4.3 miles13
Nettleton (historical)4.3 miles15
Proctor (historical)5.1 miles12
Thackery5.2 miles12

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 Q122572136The 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 2630827. 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.