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

Saundersville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45678. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mercerville quadrangle.

Saundersville within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saundersville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Saundersville, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

58 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Saundersville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 782 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism15
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2020Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15824
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1661
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest790
6 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4206
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2020Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWayne National Forest195
29 April 2019Arson/incendiarism7.9 acresWayne National ForestOKEY
29 April 2019Arson/incendiarism5.8 acresWayne National Forest63

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 98 shown

Museums hold 98 specimens collected within 10 miles of Saundersville between 1899 and 1967: 90 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Cooper, C. (Carolyn), Cooper, C. S. (Carolyn S.), Cooper, I. (Ivan) & Cooper, S. (Sammy), D. Moots 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 Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Indian Guyan Creek, within east Windsor township, near Athalia, Windsor township
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp

All 98 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
Lecta1.3 miles14
Okey2.2 miles14
Yarico2.8 miles14
Greasy Ridge3.6 miles14
Rappsburg4.0 miles15
Polkadotte5.3 miles16
Wilgus6.0 miles15
Suiter6.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076839. 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.