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

Polkadotte, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45678. It lies in Shebear Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Athalia quadrangle.

Polkadotte within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Polkadotte, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Polkadotte, surveyed 1906

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

80 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Polkadotte between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,473 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism22
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15245
5 September 2020Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15824
19 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestNORMAN
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1661
7 April 2013Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12865
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7930

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 294 shown

Museums hold 294 specimens collected within 10 miles of Polkadotte between 1840 and 1974: 278 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster, Cooper, C. (Carolyn) 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 Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1921George C. WitheyDeering, 11 miles east of
A photograph of the species Holcocephala calva, not of this specimenHolcocephala calva (Loew, 1872)1926C. Kennedy[not stated]
A photograph of the species Cremastus Gravenhorst, not of this specimenCremastus Gravenhorst, 18291927L. Stearns[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio

All 294 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
Platform2.2 miles16
Scottown2.5 miles15
Suiter2.7 miles15
Rappsburg2.8 miles15
Ida (historical)3.0 miles15
Okey3.1 miles14
Dobbston3.5 miles15
Cebee4.7 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122597644The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076669. 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.