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Slickaway, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45101. It stands on Slickaway Run. The Survey maps it on the Maysville East quadrangle.

Slickaway within Brown County

Then and now

1929 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Slickaway, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Slickaway, surveyed 1929

Compare 1929 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

1 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Slickaway between 2014 and 2014, burning about 0 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/undetermined1

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
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 152 shown

Museums hold 152 specimens collected within 10 miles of Slickaway between 1843 and 1974: 119 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Bartley, F. 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 Physcomitrium immersum, not of this specimenPhyscomitrium immersum Sull.1843W. S. Sullivant; A. Grayad fluminis Ohio ripas prope Maysville, Kentucky [bank of Ohio River, near Maysville]
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
A photograph of the species Stictis Pers., not of this specimenStictis Pers., 18001883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercospora sordida, not of this specimenCercospora sordida Sacc.1899King H. B.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera peckii U.Braun1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Microsphaera ravenelii, not of this specimenMicrosphaera ravenelii Berk.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near Ripley, Union Twp., Brown Co., Ohio

All 152 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Slickaway: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Maysville KilnCalciumProducer
Buckeye PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Franfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maysville Dredging, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms nearby

7 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Slickaway in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSlickaway$10,000Several trees and power lines were downed between Ripley and Aberdeen.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSlickaway$3,000Several trees were downed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSlickaway$1,000A large tree limb fell onto a car.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSlickaway$1,000One tree was downed near Aberdeen due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2008HailSlickaway$1,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSlickaway$500A tree was downed near the intersection of State Routes 41 and 763.
June 2012HailSlickaway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Ellsberry1.4 miles15
Huntington Park1.5 miles13
Aberdeen2.1 miles13
Hiett2.9 miles15
Clems Shady Nook Park5.6 miles13
Hestoria5.9 miles13
Neel6.2 miles9
East Ripley6.4 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122541462The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063020. 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.