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

Randall Terrace, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scioto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. It stands on North Fork Paint Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chillicothe West quadrangle.

Randall Terrace within Ross County

Then and now

1912 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Randall Terrace, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Randall Terrace, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

29 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Randall Terrace between 2002 and 2020, burning about 68 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
6 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14305
28 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13945
17 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15231
7 May 2008Debris and open burning7.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15214
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11235
27 April 2009Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15196

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,645 shown

Museums hold 1,645 specimens collected within 10 miles of Randall Terrace between 1874 and 1975: 1,155 Animalia, 397 Fungi, 81 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. C. Lincoln, A. Cronquist 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 flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131895F. L. S.Ross County
Specimen of Puccinia tanaceti DC.Puccinia tanaceti DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
Specimen of Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
A photograph of the species Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Passiflora lutea, not of this specimenPassiflora lutea L.1885Safford, William EdwinChillicothe
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1896Selby, A. D.Chillicothe
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.1896Selby A. D.Chillicothe
A photograph of the species Elanoides forficatus, not of this specimenElanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Seip, J. (John)Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901not recordedRoss, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophophanes Kaup, not of this specimenLophophanes Kaup, 18291901Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Armillaria mellea, not of this specimenArmillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.1902Hard, MironChillicothe

All 1,645 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Randall Terrace: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
N3 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
N3 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 6 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ross 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
Belleview Heights0.9 miles14
North Fork Village0.9 miles14
Brewer Heights1.0 miles14
Chillicothe1.8 miles15
Slate Mills2.7 miles14
Riton (historical)3.0 miles15
Franklin (historical)3.3 miles15
Pleasant Valley3.3 miles14

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 Q122589583The 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 1049109. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.