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

Perry Addition, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45648. It stands on Bull Run. The Survey maps it on the Stockdale quadrangle.

Perry Addition within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Perry Addition, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Perry Addition, surveyed 1911

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.

In the 1903 county history

1,326 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Madison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Madison Township - 1,326 words.

Fires nearby

21 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Perry Addition between 2003 and 2018, burning about 195 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined137 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesWHITE GRAVEL
24 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources652
29 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources649
22 March 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources647

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 982 shown

Museums hold 982 specimens collected within 10 miles of Perry Addition between 1885 and 1975: 857 Animalia, 82 Fungi, 38 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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 Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1889Craig M.Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
unnamed1897MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza georgiana, not of this specimenMelospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Wheelersburg, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 982 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Perry Addition: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mccoy QuarryClayUnknown
Stockdale Area MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto 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
Purdy Corners3.0 miles12
Minford3.6 miles12
Massie (historical)4.1 miles11
Clarktown4.6 miles12
Preston Addition5.0 miles12
Wallace Mills5.3 miles12
Harrison Furnace5.6 miles12
Tomlison Addition5.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049077. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.