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

Redhaw, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44866. It stands on Redhaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Polk quadrangle.

Redhaw within Ashland County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Redhaw, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Redhaw, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

11 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Redhaw between 2019 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15242
19 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15868
16 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15755
16 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15164
11 April 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15155
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15153
27 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15154
19 November 2020Debris and open burning20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources16001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 260 shown

Museums hold 260 specimens collected within 10 miles of Redhaw between 1846 and 1973: 239 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea, Auten, B Zahuranec & party 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 Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) DouinAnthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin1923Mrs. Bayard R. Taylornear Londonville
Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 19161846P. HarwoodAshland
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Smith, D. W.Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1897Ashcroft, G.B.; O., BereaAlbion
A photograph of the species Mentha spicata, not of this specimenMentha spicata L.1897G. B. AshcroftAlbion
A photograph of the species Smilax tamnoides, not of this specimenSmilax tamnoides L.1899Selby, A.D.Red Haw
A photograph of the species Tyto alba, not of this specimenTyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)1900Fuller, W. J.Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1902not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Amphiagrion saucium, not of this specimenAmphiagrion saucium (Burmeister, 1839)1916not recordedSullivan
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631927not recorded
Sternotherus odoratus (Latreille, 1802)1927Drumm, J. C.Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio
Trionyx spiniferus Lesueur, 18271927Drumm, J. C.Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio

All 260 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 Redhaw: 2 past producers. None of them 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
Gindlesperger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gindlesperger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland County

Storms nearby

3 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Redhaw in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 3 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
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRedhaw$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and flattened a barn. Corn in nearby fields was also flattened.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRedhaw$10,000A portion of State Route 46 was closed because of multiple trees and power lines blown down near Mineral Ridge.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindRedhaw-A garage door was dislodged and blown into a mobile home at a trailer park about three-miles southwest of West Salem.

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Rowsburg2.7 miles11
Polk4.5 miles12
Albion5.3 miles12
England5.9 miles11
Treaton6.2 miles11
Jeromesville6.8 miles11
Nankin6.9 miles16
Spreng8.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061589. 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.