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

Parlatt, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43976. The Survey maps it on the Cadiz quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Parlatt within Harrison County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Parlatt (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Parlatt (historical), surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Parlatt (historical) between 2011 and 2017, 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
Debris and open burning3
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
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
21 February 2017Debris and open burning17 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7095
18 February 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

11 of 17 shown

Museums hold 17 specimens collected within 10 miles of Parlatt (historical) between 1889 and 1964: 10 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 11 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Fink, B., H. Waters 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 Ulmus americana L.Ulmus americana L.1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Specimen of Uncinula macrospora PeckUncinula macrospora Peck1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
A photograph of the species Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
Arthropoda1934H. WatersHopedale, Plot 128
A photograph of the species Grapholita eclipsana, not of this specimenGrapholita eclipsana (Zeller, 1875)1934Waters, H.Hopedale
A photograph of the species Cambarincola philadelphicus, not of this specimenCambarincola philadelphicus (Leidy, 1851)1960P. Holt & V. Holt3.9 mi. W of Cadiz on US 36 & 250, small clay stream
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis, not of this specimenGnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis (Riley, 1869)1964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema salinaris, not of this specimenGnorimoschema salinaris Busck, 19111964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Verbena urticifolia, not of this specimenVerbena urticifolia L.1964Andrew R. MoldenkeCadiz

All 17 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
Cherry Valley0.5 miles17
Hopedale1.5 miles17
Hares Court1.7 miles17
Carman3.4 miles17
Unionvale3.4 miles17
Rexford3.5 miles17
East Cadiz3.6 miles17
Pittsburgh Junction4.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067591. 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.