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Richland, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Richland Township. The Survey maps it on the Hamden quadrangle.

Richland within Vinton County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Richland, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Richland, surveyed 1913

Compare 1913 against another survey:

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

34 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 2006 and 2019, burning about 161 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5145
13 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1381
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15176
21 April 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1001
18 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2009Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,528 shown

Museums hold 1,528 specimens collected within 10 miles of Richland between 1878 and 1975: 1,339 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans 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 CalodonCalodon1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
Specimen of Calvatia caelata (Bull.) MorganCalvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 1,528 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
Hamden4.2 miles12
Ray4.7 miles13
Bee (historical)5.3 miles13
Allensville5.9 miles16
Puritan6.1 miles13
Dundas6.3 miles13
Ratcliffburg6.9 miles14
McArthur7.5 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on RichlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134177The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062975. 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.