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

Spring Valley, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. The Survey maps it on the Zanesville East quadrangle.

Spring Valley within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Valley, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Spring Valley, surveyed 1910

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

61 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley between 2002 and 2019, burning about 100 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
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15277
30 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15278
6 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15092
28 April 2016Smoking1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4885
20 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4466
2 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 Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,748 shown

Museums hold 1,748 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spring Valley between 1873 and 1975: 1,416 Animalia, 304 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 7 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, A.E. Miller, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
A photograph of the species Bubo virginianus, not of this specimenBubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1908A. H. WrightNew Concord

All 1,748 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
Georgetown0.8 miles15
Bridgeville1.5 miles15
Sonora2.0 miles15
Jackson (historical)2.3 miles15
Smith Mill2.8 miles15
Carlwick (historical)2.9 miles15
Griffin3.1 miles15
Brookover (historical)3.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771115. 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.