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

Reform, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43830. The Survey maps it on the Hickman quadrangle.

Reform within Licking County

Then and now

1909 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Reform, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Reform, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

18 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Reform between 2011 and 2020, burning about 34 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8807
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9045
25 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12525
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11607
18 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3906
12 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10165
7 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3345
17 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7054

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 554 shown

Museums hold 554 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reform between 1893 and 1975: 504 Animalia, 38 Fungi, 12 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.1893Jones, H.L.Toboso
Specimen of Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.1922E. B.Newark
A photograph of the species Cladonia symphycarpa, not of this specimenCladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.1894Bogue, E.E.Black Hand
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Mills, W. C.Mt. Vernon, 1 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lysimachia quadriflora, not of this specimenLysimachia quadriflora Sims1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Smilax herbacea, not of this specimenSmilax herbacea L.1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1896Parker, J. B.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Williamson, E. G.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1898Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA

All 554 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Reform 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindReform$25,000Fifty to one hundred trees were downed at a property on Mary Ann Furnace Road.

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Tilton Crossroads2.3 miles10
Perryton2.7 miles10
Rocky Fork2.8 miles11
Hickman3.3 miles11
Hanover4.0 miles12
Boston4.4 miles11
Ben4.4 miles12
Rain Rock4.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057951. 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.