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

Stella, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45651. It stands on Locust Grove Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Allensville quadrangle.

Stella within Vinton County

Then and now

1910 to 2002

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 Stella, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Stella, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

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

9 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stella between 2009 and 2015, burning about 10 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 burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 July 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	945
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	683
24 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 March 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	SPICE LICK
8 February 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	541

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,320 shown

Museums hold 1,320 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stella between 1900 and 1975: 1,227 Animalia, 62 Fungi, 30 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer et al., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)	1940	not recorded	South Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township
Acordulecera dorsalis	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Acordulecera mellina	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891	1900	not recorded	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 1861	1900	none specified	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)	1900	Hine	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Calobata antennaepes Say, 1823	1900	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Capnochroa LeConte, 1862	1900	not recorded	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Cephalops Fallén, 1810	1900	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 1,320 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Siverly	2.8 miles	15
Royal	3.2 miles	16
Goosetown (historical)	3.2 miles	16
Hue	3.6 miles	15
Creola	5.1 miles	15
Mount Pleasant	5.9 miles	15
Allensville	6.0 miles	16
Elk Fork	6.4 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Stella	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18385363	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076965. 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.