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Stillwell, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44637. The Survey maps it on the Spring Mountain quadrangle. It stands 2,917 feet above sea level.

Stillwell within Holmes County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stillwell, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Stillwell, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

8 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Stillwell between 2011 and 2018, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2968
18 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2966
10 April 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9948
9 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7291
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13985
18 March 2015Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2965
12 March 2016Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3725
13 November 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 195 shown

Museums hold 195 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stillwell between 1895 and 1974: 185 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, C.F. Zuercher, Crunkilton, R. (Ron) & Crunkilton, L. (Lila) 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 Uromyces asclepiadis CookeUromyces asclepiadis Cooke1895W.A. KellermanKillbuck
Specimen of Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.1897F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1933McCalmont, C.Millersburg.
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1897W. A. KellermanBrinkhaven.
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Lampsilis cardium, not of this specimenLampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 18201909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Ligumia recta, not of this specimenLigumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Ptychobranchus fasciolaris, not of this specimenPtychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck

All 195 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 Stillwell: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Huninger QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Glenmont Quarry No. 24Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Holmes County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Holmes County

Storms nearby

4 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Stillwell in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindStillwell$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindStillwell$5,000Many trees downed in and around Stillwell.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStillwell-Several small trees downed in southwestern Holmes County, just east of Brinkhaven.
June 2010HailStillwell-Penny to quarter sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Holmes 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
Fort Fizzle2.2 miles10
Baddow Pass (historical)3.7 miles12
Glenmont4.1 miles12
Killbuck6.3 miles17
Welcome7.0 miles12
Nashville9.4 miles12
Paint Valley9.8 miles12
New Wheeling (historical)10.0 miles13

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 StillwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104708114The 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 1065386. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.