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

Raccoon Island, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It stands on Bear Run. The Survey maps it on the Apple Grove quadrangle.

Raccoon Island within Gallia 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 Raccoon Island, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Raccoon Island, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

75 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Raccoon Island between 1992 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning46
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryCRAB CREEK RD.
14 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 1999Debris and open burning16 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPRIVATE FARM RD
3 May 1997Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryMILLSTONE ROAD
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11987
9 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPLEASANT RIDGE ROAD
8 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 314 shown

Museums hold 314 specimens collected within 10 miles of Raccoon Island between 1888 and 1975: 155 Animalia, 120 Fungi, 27 Plantae, 12 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., Bartley, F. 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 Macrhybopsis storeriana, not of this specimenMacrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Moxostoma carinatum, not of this specimenMoxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallNear Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis blennius, not of this specimenNotropis blennius (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis stramineus, not of this specimenNotropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Percina copelandi, not of this specimenPercina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis, not of this specimenColeosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces trifolii, not of this specimenUromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 18471891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1904Sheldon, John L.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Alternaria cucumerina, not of this specimenAlternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) J.A.Elliott1904Sheldon J. L.Mercers Bottom
Cercospora citrullina Cooke1904Sheldon John L.Point Pleasant

All 314 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
Holiday Hills0.9 miles15
Angola (historical)1.8 miles15
Thivener2.8 miles15
Eureka2.9 miles15
Clipper Mills3.1 miles16
Angel3.9 miles14
Bladen4.1 miles15
Leaper4.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076707. 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.