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

Relief, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Norwich Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44890. The Survey maps it on the Centerton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Relief within Huron County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Relief (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Relief (historical), surveyed 1915

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.

In the 1896 county history

2,695 words on this township

The county history of 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Norwich Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Norwich Township - 2,695 words.

Fires nearby

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Relief (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
29 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 158 shown

Museums hold 158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Relief (historical) between 1885 and 1974: 106 Plantae, 24 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 14 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, C. E. Jennings, Creamer, D. 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 Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 1876Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 18761885A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum inaequale Peck, 1878Physarum inaequale Peck, 18781885A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 1873Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 18731886A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Trichia proximella P.Karst., 1879Trichia proximella P.Karst., 18791889A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 1792Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 17921889A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 1899Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 18991890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 1876Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 18761890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum relatum Morgan, 1896Physarum relatum Morgan, 18961890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Calonema aureum Morgan, 1893Calonema aureum Morgan, 18931891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Didymium eximium Peck, 1878Didymium eximium Peck, 18781891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 1805Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 18051891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 1805Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 18051891A. P. MorganPreston

All 158 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
Centerton2.6 miles12
Willard4.1 miles13
Celeryville4.7 miles13
Havana5.2 miles12
Coble Village6.1 miles13
Steuben6.4 miles13
Bismarck6.4 miles12
New Pittsburgh6.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067412. 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.