Block
Seward, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Royalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43533. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1990The 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 sheets covering this place
15 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Wauseon quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
6 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Seward between 2006 and 2009, burning about 4 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 burning | 6 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 February 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,091 shownMuseums hold 1,091 specimens collected within 10 miles of Seward between 1894 and 1975: 1,079 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, Adams, K.; Adams, S., CHAS M BUTLER 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Capnodium Mont., 1849 | 1928 | W.M. Burkett | Metamora |
 | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
 | Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Fulton, Ohio, USA |
 | Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
 | Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839) | 1909 | CHAS M BUTLER | MORENCI |
 | Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman | Bad Creek, in southeastern Pike Twnp, just north of village of Delta |
 | Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Swan Cr. Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio |
| Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Swan Cr. Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio | |
 | Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Pike Twp.: Bad Creek, Fulton Co., Ohio |
 | Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825 | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Clinton Twp: W. of Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio |
All 1,091 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Townline (historical) | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Whiteville | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Siney (historical) | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Leslie (historical) | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lytton | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Winameg | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Champion | 5.6 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065302. 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.