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

Saltillo, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mechanic Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44654. The Survey maps it on the Berlin quadrangle.

Saltillo within Holmes County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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 Saltillo, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Saltillo, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

24 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Saltillo between 2004 and 2020, burning about 29 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 burning15
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
18 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12567
10 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4189
15 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural ResourcesTR 128
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4087

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 208 shown

Museums hold 208 specimens collected within 10 miles of Saltillo between 1890 and 1974: 167 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, Alleshonse? O. 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
Specimen of Uromyces asclepiadis CookeUromyces asclepiadis Cooke1895W.A. KellermanKillbuck
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1896Wetzstein, A.Fryburg
Specimen of Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.1914Drushel, J.A.
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Collector(s): unknownMillesburg
A photograph of the species Arachnion album, not of this specimenArachnion album Schwein.1893A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Schizophyllum commune, not of this specimenSchizophyllum commune Fr.1901A. D. SelbyMillersburg
A photograph of the species Laestadia bidwellii, not of this specimenLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1906Alleshouse O. C.New Bedford
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1906Alleshonse? O. C.New Bedford
A photograph of the species Hyla versicolor, not of this specimenHyla versicolor LeConte, 18251907not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1907not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1907not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck

All 208 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Saltillo: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Holmes 241 Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Brothers Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Close Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Close Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fair PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
241 Limestone Plant & QuarryClayProducer
Clark Clay CompanyClayPast Producer
Clark Clay Company MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Holmes 241 Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Holmes 241 Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes County

Storms nearby

1 since 2024

The National Weather Service names Saltillo in 1 storm report between 2024 and 2024: 1 hail. 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
February 2024HailSaltillo-Hail up to quarter-size at Black Diamond Golf Course about four-miles SSE of Millersburg.

Every storm recorded in Holmes 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
Grade (historical)2.4 miles17
Becks Mills2.7 miles14
Charm3.5 miles16
Berlin4.0 miles16
Millersburg4.4 miles17
Bunker Hill5.0 miles16
Mount Union (historical)5.3 miles17
Benton5.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065282. 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.