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

Station 15, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44621. It lies in Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Uhrichsville quadrangle.

Station 15 within Harrison County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Station 15, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Station 15, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

13 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Station 15 between 2004 and 2020, burning about 22 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.8 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1142
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12185
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4708
1 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15476
9 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11206
9 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12628

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 127 shown

Museums hold 127 specimens collected within 10 miles of Station 15 between 1891 and 1970: 103 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Conan J. Taylor 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 Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(3 mi above)
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Cardamine bulbosa, not of this specimenCardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1905Ortmann, A.E.Bowerston
Carex pellita Muhl. ex Willd.1911Sterkialong B.& O. Ry, 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville
Carex annectens (E.P.Bicknell) E.P.Bicknell1914Sterkialong B & O Ry, 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville
A photograph of the species Carex davisii, not of this specimenCarex davisii Schwein. & Torr.1914SterkiDennison
Carex hirsutella Mack.1914Sterkialong B&O Ry., 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville

All 127 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Station 15: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
BowerstonClayProducer
Bowerston Shale Company PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Superior Clay Corporation MillClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Feed Springs2.7 miles14
Tappan3.5 miles14
West Shore Cottage Area3.9 miles14
East Shore Cottage Area4.5 miles14
Bowerston4.6 miles13
Conotton6.3 miles13
Smithdale (historical)6.6 miles14
Deersville6.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065377. 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.