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

Pravo, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43932. It stands on Ralston Run. The Survey maps it on the Salineville quadrangle.

Pravo within Jefferson County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pravo, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pravo, 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

13 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pravo between 2004 and 2018, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11805
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7808
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4129
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8205
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2530
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources816
27 March 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 272 shown

Museums hold 272 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pravo between 1890 and 1974: 213 Animalia, 46 Plantae, 13 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Acker, G. 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 Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Glomerella rufomaculans, not of this specimenGlomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk1904Sheldon J. L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake

All 272 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Pravo in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Pravo$75,000An EF1 tornado was confirmed by a NWS storm survey with maximum winds of 90 MPH. A supercell thunderstorm produced a tornado that touched down 10.5 miles east of Carrollton in eastern Carroll county and entered Jefferson county just north of the intersection of of Township Highway 317 and SR 164 around 1701EST. The tornado continued into northwest Jefferson county before dissipating around 1705EST 4 miles northeast of Bergholz with a total path length of approximately 4 miles. The maximum width was about 300 yds. The tornado was EF1 in both counties with trees toppled or snapped. Structural damage included a porch roof, shingles off roofs, broken windows and siding torn off homes. A chimney was knocked down and numerous outbuildings suffered roof or wall damage. A large tree also fell on a mobile home.
June 2019Flash FloodPravo-A county 911 official reported that multiple roads were flooded across the northern part of Jefferson County.
May 2016HailPravo-no account filed
March 2011HailPravo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Bergholz2.7 miles15
Shane3.2 miles17
Circle Green3.3 miles16
The Eastern3.7 miles16
Holt4.3 miles13
Wolf Run4.7 miles16
East Springfield5.0 miles17
Middleburg5.1 miles16

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 PravoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134139The 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 1062954. 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.