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

Peniel, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45656. It lies in Pokepatch Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Gallia quadrangle.

Peniel within Gallia County

Then and now

1912 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Peniel, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Peniel, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

92 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Peniel between 1995 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 were 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestUNION FIRE
7 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestKENNISON
24 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestSCHAFFER
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWayne National ForestFRIDAY
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresWayne National ForestFIRST FIRE
2 April 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestTURNER
18 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestFIELDING 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 42 shown

Museums hold 42 specimens collected within 10 miles of Peniel between 1899 and 1974: 27 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Bryant, J.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
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Illosporium malifoliorum, not of this specimenIllosporium malifoliorum J.Sheld.1909Starcher Bros.Gallia
A photograph of the species Coleosporium carneum, not of this specimenColeosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1916Houser J. S.Gallia
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Symmes Creek, within southeast Symmes township, near Arabia, Symmes township
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Symmes Creek, within southeast Symmes township, near Arabia, Symmes township
A photograph of the species Percina sciera, not of this specimenPercina sciera (Swain, 1883)1932Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Philips, C. H.Raccoon Creek, Sec 14-23 of Perry township, ~4.9 mi S of Rio Grande, Perry township
A photograph of the species Hemidactylium scutatum, not of this specimenHemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)1933Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Dury, R. (Ralph)swamp, N of Gallia, Gallia Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1933Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Dury, R. (Ralph)swamp, N of Gallia, Gallia Co., Ohio
Pseudotriton montanus Baird, 18501933Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Dury, R. (Ralph)swamp, N of Gallia, Gallia Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821933Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Dury, R. (Ralph)swamp, N of Gallia, Gallia Co., Ohio
Ranidae1933Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Dury, R. (Ralph)swamp, N of Gallia, Gallia Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1934Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)swamp pond, near Gallia, Gallia Co., Ohio

All 42 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Peniel in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 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
April 2011FloodPeniel$25,000Numerous roads were closed by overflowing small streams.

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
Gallia2.0 miles11
Hoadley2.5 miles11
McDaniel Crossroad4.3 miles12
Centerpoint5.5 miles12
Cadmus5.7 miles12
Flag Spring6.9 miles14
Gage7.2 miles12
Tynrhos (historical)7.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076614. 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.