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Plantsville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43728. The Survey maps it on the Amesville quadrangle.

Plantsville within Morgan County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plantsville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Plantsville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1880 county history

64 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Marion Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Marion Township - 64 words.

Fires nearby

4 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Plantsville between 2015 and 2019, burning about 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources633
15 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11486
28 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15148
30 October 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5929

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 42 shown

Museums hold 42 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plantsville between 1927 and 1970: 24 Animalia, 18 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolin, H. (Harold), Dennis, D. M., Whitesell, J. & Tilley, S. G., M. Johnson; L. Mingrope; W. Gambill 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 Apocynum cannabinum L.Apocynum cannabinum L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Campanulastrum americanum (L.) SmallCampanulastrum americanum (L.) Small1963William G. Gambill Jr.; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area.
Specimen of Cercis canadensis L.Cercis canadensis L.1963Michael E. Johnson; Wm. G. Gambill Jr.Wolf Creek Wildlife Area.
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927MB Trautman & RB FosterW Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)West Branch Wolf Creek, within Penn township, near Chesterhill, Penn township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Wolf Creek tributary, within Wesley township, near Stockport, Wesley township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Wolf Creek tributary, within Wesley township, near Stockport, Wesley township
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1932Wolfram, G. (George)Roxbury, Morgan Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1960Dennis, D. M., Whitesell, J. & Tilley, S. G.Marion Twp., Morgan Co., Ohio
Specimen of Circaea lutetiana L.Circaea lutetiana L.1963M. Johnson; L. Mingrope; W. GambillWolf Creek Wildlife Area.
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench1963W. Gambill; L. Mingrove; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area.
Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers.1963W. Gambill; L. Mingrone; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area.

All 42 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
Chesterhill2.5 miles14
Joy3.7 miles14
Todds5.2 miles12
Wrightstown5.4 miles14
Elliott Crossroads6.5 miles13
Westland6.9 miles13
Mountville7.4 miles13
Chadwick (historical)7.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076652. 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.