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Stringtown, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Linton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43749. It stands on Roahrig Hill. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Stringtown within Coshocton County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 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 (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Stringtown (historical), surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

11 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown (historical) between 2014 and 2020, burning about 167 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5

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
4 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9248
26 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8905
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11566
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7874
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7875
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7869

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 337 shown

Museums hold 337 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stringtown (historical) between 1903 and 1974: 274 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Buker, W.E., Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.) 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 Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lampsilis fasciola, not of this specimenLampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 18201903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Ligumia recta, not of this specimenLigumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Ortmanniana ligamentina, not of this specimenOrtmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Ptychobranchus fasciolaris, not of this specimenPtychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 337 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
Linton Mills1.1 miles16
Plainfield1.7 miles16
Bacon4.4 miles14
Low Gap5.5 miles16
Maysville5.6 miles14
Flat Iron Corner5.8 miles16
Isleta5.9 miles16
Shady Bend6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068265. 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.