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

Pearl, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in White Eyes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43824. The Survey maps it on the Fresno quadrangle.

Pearl within Coshocton County

Then and now

1911 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pearl, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pearl, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 Pearl between 2005 and 2019, burning about 49 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources961
13 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15183

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 870 shown

Museums hold 870 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pearl between 1892 and 1973: 579 Plantae, 190 Animalia, 92 Fungi, 4 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Alleshonse? O. C., Alleshouse O. C. 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 Amanita flavorubescens G.F.Atk.Amanita flavorubescens G.F.Atk.1942ModenkeWhite Eyes; North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Specimen of Bulgaria rufa Schwein.Bulgaria rufa Schwein.1942H. MoldenkeCoshocton, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Specimen of Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) LloydCalvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd1942H. MoldenkeCoshcoton; N. Appl. Exp. Watershed, near Coshocton
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lampsilis fasciola, not of this specimenLampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 18201903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 870 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Pearl in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPearl$15,000Storm survey team found isolated tree damage in the vicinity of State Route 93.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindPearl$5,000Law enforcement reported trees down in Baltic.
August 2014FloodPearl$1,000Emergency management reported intersection of County Road 43 and State Route 93 flooded.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPearl$250The public reported a tree down on Ohio 93.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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
Chili1.5 miles16
Fresno2.6 miles16
Munsville (historical)4.3 miles16
Bakersville4.4 miles16
Powell4.5 miles16
Riverview Estates5.4 miles16
New Bedford5.6 miles14
Orange6.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061176. 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.