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

Stillhouse Run, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43915. It stands on Stillhouse Run. The Survey maps it on the Powhatan Point quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Stillhouse Run within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 1988

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 Stillhouse Run (historical), surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Stillhouse Run (historical), surveyed 1905

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

6 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stillhouse Run (historical) between 2010 and 2020, burning about 18 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
6 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4847
13 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources905
1 April 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWAYNE RIDGE ROAD
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 February 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15412
8 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 314 shown

Museums hold 314 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stillhouse Run (historical) between 1860 and 1975: 300 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew, E.A., Buker, W.E., David M. Dennis 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 Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.1924L.L. Lehman
Specimen of Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.1931F. O. GroverS of Oak point, woods
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Aralia racemosa, not of this specimenAralia racemosa L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Astragalus canadensis, not of this specimenAstragalus canadensis L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Desmodium glutinosum, not of this specimenDesmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood1877Guttenberg, G.New Martin[s]ville
A photograph of the species Sericocarpus asteroides, not of this specimenSericocarpus asteroides (L.) Britton, Stern & Poggenb.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1878Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Aureolaria virginica, not of this specimenAureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell1879Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1897Guttenberg, H.G.New Martinville
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181901Sterki, VictorClarington

All 314 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
Clarington1.4 miles15
Switzer4.0 miles15
Dwight4.4 miles15
Cameron4.8 miles15
Oak5.3 miles18
Rockport (historical)6.7 miles17
Round Bottom6.8 miles18
Bingham7.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067353. 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.