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

Stringtown, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paint Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. The Survey maps it on the Rainsboro quadrangle.

Stringtown within Highland County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 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 1986
Topographic sheet of Stringtown, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

7 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 2006 and 2014, burning about 13 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
12 April 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 February 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 November 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesBARRETT MILL ROAD
16 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,683 shown

Museums hold 1,683 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stringtown between 1876 and 1975: 1,058 Animalia, 511 Fungi, 88 Plantae, 22 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14505, 14519, 14555 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 Entyloma compositarum Farl.Entyloma compositarum Farl.1894F. L. StevensHighland Falls.
Specimen of Aecidium asterum Schwein.Aecidium asterum Schwein.1895F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia podophylli Schwein.Puccinia podophylli Schwein.1895F. L. StevensHighland County
A photograph of the species Cordyceps militaris, not of this specimenCordyceps militaris (L.) Link1876W. B. CookeFort Hill State Memorial
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1880not recordedLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Elimia semicarinata, not of this specimenElimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1881S.M. TaggertLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1910Hopkins, L.S."Caves" Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Brachyelytrum erectum, not of this specimenBrachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cardamine pensylvanica, not of this specimenCardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cinna arundinacea, not of this specimenCinna arundinacea L.1910Hopkins, L.S.Panel Creek
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1910Hopkins, L.S.Careo, Paint Creek

All 1,683 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
Boston1.8 miles14
Highland Holiday2.8 miles17
New Petersburg3.0 miles13
Rocky Fork Point3.0 miles17
Rainsboro3.6 miles17
South Beach3.7 miles17
McCoppin Mill4.5 miles17
Bridges5.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065395. 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.