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

Poe Valley, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45647. It stands on Bluelick Run. The Survey maps it on the Londonderry quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Poe Valley within Ross County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Poe Valley (historical), surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Poe Valley (historical), surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

16 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Poe Valley (historical) between 2007 and 2015, burning about 103 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesLONDONDERRY
30 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1081
21 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1329
20 April 2014Recreation and ceremony21 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1025

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 947 shown

Museums hold 947 specimens collected within 10 miles of Poe Valley (historical) between 1922 and 1975: 866 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 34 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. Spreitzer, A.E. Miller 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 Neurotoma fasciata, not of this specimenNeurotoma fasciata1922A.E. Miller
A photograph of the species Schizocerella pilicornis, not of this specimenSchizocerella pilicornis (Holmgren)1922A.E. Miller
A photograph of the species Aceria ulmicola, not of this specimenAceria ulmicola Nalepa, 19091923Miller, A. E. (August E.)Richmond Dale, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Acroneuria abnormis, not of this specimenAcroneuria abnormis (Newman, 1838)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Acroneuria internata, not of this specimenAcroneuria internata (Walker, 1852)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Acroneuria perplexa, not of this specimenAcroneuria perplexa Frison, 19371925Clarence H. Kennedy
Agnetina capitata (Pictet, 1841)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
Neoperla stewarti Stark & Baumann, 19781925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061925Clarence H. Kennedy
Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Perlesta lagoi, not of this specimenPerlesta lagoi Stark, 19891925Clarence H. Kennedy

All 947 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
Londonderry2.2 miles12
Vigo3.5 miles11
Lickskillet3.6 miles12
Mooresville4.5 miles12
Tucson4.9 miles12
Canada (historical)5.3 miles11
Schooley5.3 miles12
West Junction5.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050026. 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.