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Sharon, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sharon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. It stands on Coffee Knob. The Survey maps it on the Caldwell South quadrangle.

Sharon within Noble County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sharon, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sharon, surveyed 1909

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

18 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 2009 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
28 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15266
8 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8425
28 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4965
18 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4426
14 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14385
25 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7531
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14705

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 95 shown

Museums hold 95 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sharon between 1884 and 1974: 61 Animalia, 30 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M., Adler, K. K., Tilley, S. G. & Wood 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 Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884NoneMacksburg
A photograph of the species Daedalea ambigua, not of this specimenDaedalea ambigua Berk.1902Lloyd C. G.Glenwood
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.

All 95 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 Sharon: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ava PitClayPast Producer
Merrill Brothers LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms nearby

5 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Sharon in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSharon$500A single tree was reported by local law enforcement to be blown down along State Route 78.
July 2021HailSharon-A picture of quarter to golf ball sized hail was received.
April 2020HailSharon-Hail ranging from pea to quarter-sized covered the ground.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindSharon-Trees down in Sharon Twp.
May 2016HailSharon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
Florence2.3 miles13
Slaters2.5 miles13
Olive Green2.7 miles13
Caldwell2.7 miles13
Hoskinsville2.8 miles13
Three Forks3.5 miles13
Belle Valley3.8 miles13
Dudley3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049170. 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.