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

Southern Estates, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43302. The Survey maps it on the Marion East quadrangle.

Southern Estates within Marion County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

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 Southern Estates, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Southern Estates, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

6 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Southern Estates between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 386 shown

Museums hold 386 specimens collected within 10 miles of Southern Estates between 1892 and 1975: 373 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Acker, G., Baumgartner, L. 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
Catocala habilis Grote, 1872	1959	not recorded	Camp Owens
Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965	1964	J. Peacock	[Not Stated]
Galium circaezans Michx.	1892	E E Bogue	Prospect
Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Marion
Helminthosporium teres Sacc.	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Prospect
Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
Photinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767)	1923	not recorded	Marion
Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 1819	1923	Lyle D. Miller	Claridon, Lake Aquilla
Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1924	Lyle D. Miller	Claridon
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Grand Twp: along Tymochtee Cr., Marion Co., Ohio
Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Montgomery Twp.: Tymochtee Creek trib., Marion Co., Ohio

All 386 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Southern Estates: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fleming Const. Co Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Ri Alto Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
The Groves At Newmans Crossing	2.3 miles	15
Yorkshire Terrace	2.5 miles	12
Lynn	2.5 miles	15
Hunters Chase	2.6 miles	12
Chateau Ridge	2.9 miles	12
Quarry Estates	3.2 miles	13
Oak Knoll	3.4 miles	13
Highlands of Marion	3.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771068. 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.