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

Shane, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43944. It stands on Middle Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle.

Shane within Jefferson County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shane, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Shane, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

23 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Shane between 2003 and 2020, burning about 59 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
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
7 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1781
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11805
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7832
6 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15619
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4129
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8205
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2530
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13765

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 481 shown

Museums hold 481 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shane between 1890 and 1974: 395 Animalia, 79 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake

All 481 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
Fairfield2.6 miles17
Pravo3.2 miles13
Richmond3.5 miles17
East Springfield3.5 miles17
Holt3.7 miles13
Circle Green3.8 miles16
Middleburg4.3 miles16
Osage4.4 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063010. 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.