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

Shell Beach, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43046. It stands on Circle Island. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle.

Shell Beach within Fairfield County

Then and now

1909 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shell Beach, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Shell Beach, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

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.

In the 1901 county history

10,676 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Walnut Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Walnut Township - 10,676 words.

Fires nearby

3 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shell Beach between 2009 and 2020, burning about 6 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
20 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15762
1 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 November 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15969

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 984 shown

Museums hold 984 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shell Beach between 1843 and 1975: 863 Animalia, 77 Fungi, 44 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Albertin, Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822	1893	unknown	Licking Reservoir
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA
Ranunculus longirostris Godr.	1893	E. M. Wilcox	Licking Reservoir
Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1897	Williamson, E. B. & Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Buckeye Lake, Walnut township, ~1.1 mi W of Fairfield Beach, Walnut township
Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.	1900	Williamson, E.B.	New Salem
Arethusa bulbosa L.	1901	C. S. Mead	Buckeye Lake
Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Buckeye Lake, Walnut Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Gordon, R. B. (Robert B.)	Honey Creek, within Thorn township, near Thornville, Thorn township
Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956	1929	MB Trautman	Buckeye Lake, Lieb's Island

All 984 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairfield Beach	0.7 miles	14
East Millersport	1.6 miles	11
Lakeside	1.7 miles	11
Summerland Beach	2.5 miles	11
Millersport	2.9 miles	11
Monticello (historical)	4.3 miles	11
New Salem	5.1 miles	12
Kellers Court	6.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049173. 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.