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

Siverly, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45651. It stands on Bethel Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Zaleski quadrangle.

Siverly within Vinton County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Siverly, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Siverly, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

7 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Siverly between 2009 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 1 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
9 July 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15791
19 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	945
22 March 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	SPICE LICK
2 October 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15849

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,357 shown

Museums hold 1,357 specimens collected within 10 miles of Siverly between 1900 and 1975: 1,253 Animalia, 62 Fungi, 41 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer et al., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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
Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)	1940	not recorded	South Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township
Acordulecera dorsalis	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Acordulecera mellina	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891	1900	not recorded	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 1861	1900	none specified	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)	1900	Hine	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Calobata antennaepes Say, 1823	1900	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Capnochroa LeConte, 1862	1900	not recorded	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Cephalops Fallén, 1810	1900	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 1,357 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
Hue	2.6 miles	15
Stella	2.8 miles	16
Creola	2.9 miles	15
Mount Pleasant	3.8 miles	15
Orland	4.7 miles	15
Elk Fork	4.9 miles	15
Royal	4.9 miles	16
Goosetown (historical)	5.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076898. 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.