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

Smithdale, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Stock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43988. It stands on Eddington Run. The Survey maps it on the Deersville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smithdale within Harrison County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Smithdale (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Smithdale (historical), surveyed 1902

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.

Fires nearby

5 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Smithdale (historical) between 2002 and 2017, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
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
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7879
13 March 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 140 shown

Museums hold 140 specimens collected within 10 miles of Smithdale (historical) between 1889 and 1971: 118 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Andrew R. Moldenke 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 Ulmus americana L.Ulmus americana L.1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Specimen of Uncinula macrospora PeckUncinula macrospora Peck1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
A photograph of the species Oxalis stricta, not of this specimenOxalis stricta L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(3 mi above)
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Cardamine bulbosa, not of this specimenCardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1905Ortmann, A.E.Bowerston
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1919Ortmann, Arnold EConotton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1920Ortmann, Arnold EPhiladelphia Road
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1920Ortmann, Arnold EPhiladelphia Road

All 140 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
Pleasant Valley (historical)0.4 miles14
Laceyville (historical)1.6 miles14
East Shore Cottage Area2.1 miles14
Deersville2.4 miles14
West Shore Cottage Area2.8 miles14
Tappan3.1 miles14
Hattonia (historical)3.7 miles14
Moraville (historical)5.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068270. 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.