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

Pratts Fork, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lodi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45776. The Survey maps it on the Shade quadrangle.

Pratts Fork within Athens County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pratts Fork, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Pratts Fork, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

3 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pratts Fork between 2007 and 2020, burning about 4 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 burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 March 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 March 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15435

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 392 shown

Museums hold 392 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pratts Fork between 1831 and 1975: 333 Animalia, 51 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beckman, J., Beckman, J.M., Braun, L. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813	1896	F. L. Stevens	Athens County
Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	W.A. Kellerman
Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt.	1934	Beckman, J.M.	Middle fork of Shade River, "Fossil Creek"
Myosotis laxa Lehm.	1831	C. H. Jones	Orange Twp.
Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.	1896	Selby, A.D.	Caananville
Aristida longespica var. longespica	1898	Selby, A.D.	Pleasanton
Quercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.	1898	Selby, A.D.	Pleasanton
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta	1902	Morse, M. (Max)	Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Erasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)	1905	not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)	1905	H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura ardens (McAtee, 1920)	1905	H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura campora (Robinson, 1924)	1905	not recorded

All 392 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Pratts Fork in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2018: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2018	Flood	Pratts Fork	$2,000	For the second time in the month of April, the Ohio River flooded causing water to spill onto Addison Pike near Addison. The Point Pleasant, WV river gage showed the river rose above its 40 foot flood stage late afternoon of the 17th. It crested at just over 42 feet around noon on the 16th and then returned to below flood stage mid morning on the 19th.
December 2018	Flood	Pratts Fork	$500	The Shade River near Chester rose above its 17 foot bankfull level shortly after midnight on the 21st. The gage showed the river cresting at 19.36 feet late that evening before returning to its banks around dawn the morning of the 22nd. This caused flooding on the Sugar Run Creek Bridge.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Garden	2.4 miles	13
Shade	2.6 miles	13
Anthony	3.5 miles	13
Carsey Town	4.0 miles	21
Chase	4.4 miles	13
Hull	5.0 miles	14
Pleasanton	5.2 miles	13
Lysander	6.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1044754. 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.