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

Rich Valley, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sharon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. It stands on Dinner Fork. The Survey maps it on the Caldwell South quadrangle.

Rich Valley within Noble County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rich Valley, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rich Valley, surveyed 1909

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.

Fires nearby

6 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rich Valley between 2008 and 2017, burning about 45 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1210
23 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7069
23 October 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesNOBLE CO. ASSIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 107 shown

Museums hold 107 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rich Valley between 1884 and 1974: 73 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by D M DENNIS, DAVID M SEVER, 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
A photograph of the species Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884NoneMacksburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Pimephales vigilax, not of this specimenPimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Pomoxis annularis, not of this specimenPomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township

All 107 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
Keith2.7 miles13
Three Forks3.8 miles13
Sharon4.4 miles13
Olive Green4.5 miles13
Dungannon4.7 miles14
Dudley5.2 miles13
Crooked Tree6.2 miles13
South Olive6.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063403. 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.