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Rappsburg, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45678. It stands on Dillon Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Aid quadrangle.

Rappsburg within Lawrence 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 Rappsburg, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Rappsburg, surveyed 1906

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

94 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Rappsburg between 1995 and 2020, burning about 868 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestWILGUS
5 September 2020Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15824
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestSIMMS CREEK #1
19 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestNORMAN
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1661
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest790
27 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 257 shown

Museums hold 257 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rappsburg between 1840 and 1974: 240 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster, Cooper, C. (Carolyn) 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 Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1921George C. WitheyDeering, 11 miles east of
A photograph of the species Holcocephala calva, not of this specimenHolcocephala calva (Loew, 1872)1926C. Kennedy[not stated]
A photograph of the species Cremastus Gravenhorst, not of this specimenCremastus Gravenhorst, 18291927L. Stearns[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio, USA
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Wolfram, G. (George)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp

All 257 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rappsburg: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Arabia Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Arabia Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Rappsburg in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindRappsburg$500A large tree was blown down along Route 775.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Suiter2.1 miles15
Greasy Ridge2.2 miles14
Okey2.2 miles14
Polkadotte2.8 miles16
Wilgus2.8 miles15
Yarico3.1 miles14
Ida (historical)3.6 miles15
Lecta3.9 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 Q122562670The 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 1076714. 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.

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.