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

Smith Corners, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Waldo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43356. It stands on Qu Qua Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waldo quadrangle.

Smith Corners within Marion County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Smith Corners, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Smith Corners, surveyed 1924

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 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Smith Corners between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 192 shown

Museums hold 192 specimens collected within 10 miles of Smith Corners between 1892 and 1970: 188 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Acker, G., C F WALKER & W D STULL, Collector(s): D. W. Kohlhorst 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 Catocala habilis Grote, 1872Catocala habilis Grote, 18721959not recordedCamp Owens
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1892E E BogueProspect
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Prospect
A photograph of the species Rallus limicola, not of this specimenRallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 18191923Lyle D. MillerClaridon, Lake Aquilla
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1924Lyle D. MillerClaridon
A photograph of the species Cyprinus carpio, not of this specimenCyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 17581930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Scioto River, within Green Camp township, near Green Camp, Green Camp township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Scioto River, within Green Camp township, near Green Camp, Green Camp township
A photograph of the species Catocala cara, not of this specimenCatocala cara Guenée, 18521938John W. PeacockOwens Road B.S. Camp Owens
Catocala angusi Grote, 18761939John W. PeacockOwens Road B.S. Camp Owens
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1942Rausch, R. (Robert)1/2 mi. S of Marion, Marion Twp., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1942Rausch, R. (Robert)Pennsylvania Ave. & Indiana Ave., Marion, Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma jeffersonianum, not of this specimenAmbystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827)1945W D STULL1.6 MI E NORTON

All 192 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
Waldo1.6 miles15
The Groves At Newmans Crossing3.6 miles15
Lynn4.3 miles15
Bethlehem (historical)4.8 miles12
Southern Estates5.8 miles12
Quarry Estates7.2 miles13
Owens7.3 miles13
Prospect7.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079591. 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.