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

Riggs, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44082. The Survey maps it on the Pierpont quadrangle.

Riggs within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Riggs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Riggs, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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

2 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Riggs between 2020 and 2020, burning about 1 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 burning1
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
26 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15835
21 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15999

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashtabula County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 225 shown

Museums hold 225 specimens collected within 10 miles of Riggs between 1880 and 1975: 201 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, T.F., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 Chara Linnaeus, not of this specimenChara Linnaeus, 17531880Allen, T.F.Lakeville Conn. U.S.A
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanConneaut Creek, Kingsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chelydra serpentina, not of this specimenChelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedKINGSVILLE, CONNEAUT CREEK
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 18571893not recordedKingsville, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1893A. WoolmanConneaut Creek, Kingsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedKingsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Labidesthes sicculus, not of this specimenLabidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)1893A. WoolmanConneaut Creek, Kingsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanConneaut Creek, Kingsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893A. WoolmanConneaut Creek, Kingsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus salmoides, not of this specimenMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Conneaut Creek

All 225 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
Shipp1.5 miles13
Monroe Center3.3 miles13
Pierpont4.1 miles20
Bushnell4.4 miles13
Kelloggsville5.5 miles13
Gould5.9 miles20
Anderson (historical)6.3 miles20
North Richmond6.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062978. 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.