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Prattsville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45651. It stands on The Pinnacle. The Survey maps it on the McArthur quadrangle. It stands 2,582 feet above sea level.

Prattsville within Vinton County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Prattsville, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Prattsville, surveyed 1905

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

21 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Prattsville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1427
28 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4647
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11011
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15691
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11525
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4066
9 March 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,114 shown

Museums hold 1,114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Prattsville between 1878 and 1975: 1,033 Animalia, 58 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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 Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States

All 1,114 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Prattsville in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Flash FloodPrattsville$100,000Streams flooded and blocked roads, including Route 50, in the central and southern portion of the county. Ohio state officials reported 2 homes with minor damage, plus damage to roads, in Richland Township.
June 1996Flash FloodPrattsville$75,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindPrattsville$5,000Several trees were blown down in the Union Ridge vicinity near County Route 6.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindPrattsville$2,000Trees were knocked across County Route 29.
January 2022FloodPrattsville$1,000Flooding occurred on State Route 278 South which led all lanes to be closed near the intersection with US Route 50 in the community of Prattsville.
March 2017Flash FloodPrattsville$1,000State Route 278 was closed in both directions due to flash flooding from Raccoon Creek and some of its smaller tributaries.

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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
Ural (historical)1.5 miles15
Red Diamond2.3 miles15
Vinton2.4 miles13
Zaleski3.0 miles15
Pincher (historical)4.4 miles12
McArthur4.7 miles13
Elk Fork5.1 miles15
Oreton5.3 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on PrattsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104855710The 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 1061571. 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.