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

Stringtown, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Canaan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45701. It stands on Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.

Stringtown within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stringtown, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Stringtown, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

23 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 2006 and 2020, burning about 52 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
23 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5926
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15774
30 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning7.3 acresWayne National ForestSCATTER
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15553

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,122 shown

Museums hold 1,122 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stringtown between 1831 and 1975: 966 Animalia, 128 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower, Barnes, R. 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 Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ambrosia bidentata Michx.Ambrosia bidentata Michx.1969William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Aristida longespica, not of this specimenAristida longespica var. longespica1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061898N. Roberts
A photograph of the species Quercus minor, not of this specimenQuercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Melasmia Lév., 18461902Kellerman, W.A.Athens
A photograph of the species Erasmoneura vulnerata, not of this specimenErasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)1905not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)1905H.T. Osborn

All 1,122 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
Canaanville1.4 miles14
New England3.3 miles14
Lysander3.3 miles21
Hull3.4 miles14
Guysville3.4 miles14
Carsey Town3.7 miles21
Hickory Hills3.8 miles21
Cole4.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076980. 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.