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

Roberts, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43791. It stands on Kent Run. The Survey maps it on the Zanesville West quadrangle.

Roberts within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Roberts, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Roberts, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 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

18 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Roberts between 2014 and 2018, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2969
12 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2971
2 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12325
19 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12326
27 May 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1641
31 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11767

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 664 shown

Museums hold 664 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roberts between 1873 and 1973: 611 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. M., Adler, K. K. 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 Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. WernerFultonham
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston

All 664 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Roberts: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chesterhill Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Chesterhill Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hammer Number 2 Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Hammer Number 2 Clay MineClayProducer
Johnathan MineLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Jonathan MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jonathan MineClayProducer
Sidwell Brothers Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Sidwell Brothers Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum 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
White Cottage0.6 miles13
Elizabeth1.5 miles13
Avondale1.6 miles13
Moxahala Park1.9 miles13
Southern Hills1.9 miles13
Roberts (historical)2.0 miles13
East Fultonham2.5 miles13
Lewis (historical)2.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049126. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.