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Revenge, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43130. It stands on Arney Run. The Survey maps it on the Clearport quadrangle.

Revenge within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Revenge, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Revenge, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1901 county history

302 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Madison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Madison Township - 302 words.

Fires nearby

14 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Revenge between 2007 and 2020, burning about 42 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 burning11
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
31 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15339
24 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1581
5 April 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7765
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15597
18 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1042
22 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources741
18 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources530
13 March 2007Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,645 shown

Museums hold 1,645 specimens collected within 10 miles of Revenge between 1839 and 1975: 947 Animalia, 470 Fungi, 214 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 6 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

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

Storms nearby

3 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Revenge in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRevenge$2,000Trees were knocked down on Clearport Rd.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRevenge$1,000A tree was knocked down on Lookout Rd.
May 2018FloodRevenge-High water was reported in parts of southern Fairfield County.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Clearport2.0 miles13
Hamburg3.6 miles12
Drinkle4.1 miles13
Pine Lake Estates4.9 miles13
Blue Valley Acres5.6 miles13
Oakland5.6 miles12
Delmont5.7 miles12
Sugar Grove5.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062971. 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.