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

Rowlesville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Windy Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Wilkesville quadrangle.

Rowlesville within Gallia County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rowlesville, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Rowlesville, surveyed 1905

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

28 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Rowlesville between 2006 and 2019, burning about 166 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 August 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1183
25 May 2007Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4265
9 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 81 shown

Museums hold 81 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rowlesville between 1900 and 1971: 29 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. O´Dell 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 Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 19021900[Not Stated]Vinton
Specimen of Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838Chrysops niger Macquart, 18381900not recorded
Specimen of Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.KernGymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern1901Kellerman, W.A.Vinton
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavipes, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck1901W. A. KellermanVinton
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1901Kellerman W. A.Vinton
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1901W. A. KellermanVinton
Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1905Ricker P. L.Bidwell
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Raccoon Creek tributary, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus natalis, not of this specimenIctalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1930MB TrautmanCampaign Creek, Addison Twp
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121932Long, C. F.Vinton, Ohio, USA

All 81 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
Morgan Center2.0 miles10
Eno3.6 miles15
Ewington3.7 miles12
Vinton3.8 miles10
Durgan4.4 miles12
Alice4.8 miles12
Glen Summitt4.8 miles10
Porter5.6 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122556615The 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 1062995. 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.