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

Stout, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45684. It stands on Cattail Run. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Stout within Adams County

Then and now

1919 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stout, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Stout, surveyed 1919

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

13 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Stout between 1997 and 2020, burning about 78 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2013Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUIKS RUN
17 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 327 shown

Museums hold 327 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stout between 1923 and 1975: 224 Animalia, 52 Plantae, 51 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A.J. Sharp, Ahles, H.E. 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 Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1923Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Lynx, Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Agkistrodon contortrix, not of this specimenAgkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 17991927Watters, G. (George)Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Alosa chrysochloris, not of this specimenAlosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio Brush Creek, within Adams Co, Adams County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Asplenium cryptolepis, not of this specimenAsplenium cryptolepis Fernald1927Braun, E. LucyBuzzard's Roost Rock
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011927Watters, G. (George)Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1927Walters, G. T. (George T.), Jr.Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus edwardsii (Merrem, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walters, G.1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Noturus miurus Jordan, 18771928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio Brush Creek, within Brush Creek township, near Lynx, Brush Creek township
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio

All 327 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
Squirrel Town2.3 miles15
Grimes (historical)4.2 miles15
Waggoner Ripple (historical)4.7 miles15
Sunshine4.9 miles13
Gemmer5.1 miles15
Tulip5.2 miles15
Selig5.4 miles13
Sandy Springs5.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1085488. 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.