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

Roxabell, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45628. It stands on Oldtown Run. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle.

Roxabell within Ross County

Then and now

1912 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Roxabell, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Roxabell, surveyed 1912

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

7 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Roxabell between 2009 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
23 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4948
17 March 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4946
20 November 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources16011
18 November 2016Smoking1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6220
18 November 2016Smoking6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6219
30 October 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6212

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 684 shown

Museums hold 684 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roxabell between 1874 and 1975: 544 Animalia, 78 Fungi, 59 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, Alexander, R.D., Allen, J. (John) 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 Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131895F. L. S.Ross County
Specimen of Puccinia tanaceti DC.Puccinia tanaceti DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
Specimen of Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
A photograph of the species Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Elanoides forficatus, not of this specimenElanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Seip, J. (John)Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Heterosternuta wickhami, not of this specimenHeterosternuta wickhami (Zaitzev, 1908)1898Scott O'Dee
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901not recordedRoss, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophophanes Kaup, not of this specimenLophophanes Kaup, 18291901Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Clitocybe cartilaginea, not of this specimenClitocybe cartilaginea (Bull.) Bres.1902Hard, MironChillicoth
Cantharellus floccosus Schwein.1903Hard, MironChilicothe
Favolus europaeus Fr.1903Hard, MironChillicoth

All 684 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Roxabell: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Fuller Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fuller Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ross County

Storms nearby

3 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Roxabell in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodRoxabell-Little Creek Road between Frankfort and State Route 28 was closed due to rushing water over the roadway.
May 2020FloodRoxabell-Water rising out of Little Creek restricted access to a home on Little Creek Road.
June 2019FloodRoxabell-A portion of Little Creek Road was closed due to high water. Several other high water signs were put out throughout the county.

Every storm recorded in Ross 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
Frankfort1.2 miles13
Musselman2.7 miles11
Lattaville2.7 miles11
Sulphur Lick4.0 miles14
Austin4.0 miles13
Harper4.2 miles13
Maple Grove4.5 miles14
Greenland5.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1045237. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.