Suiter, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45696. It stands on Dillon Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Aid quadrangle.
Then and now
1906 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
15 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
- 1972 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Aid quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
114 since 1992The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Suiter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 burning | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15245 |
| 9 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | WILGUS |
| 5 September 2020 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15824 |
| 23 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | SIMMS CREEK #1 |
| 17 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | COW PILE FIRE |
| 19 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | NORMAN |
| 1 August 2013 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 272 shownMuseums hold 272 specimens collected within 10 miles of Suiter between 1840 and 1974: 256 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster, Cooper, C. (Carolyn) 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium clematidis DC. | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC. | 1840 | Short, C.W. | along Ohio River |
![]() | Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854 | 1899 | [Not Stated] | Waterloo |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | Aid |
![]() | Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | Aid |
![]() | Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818) | 1921 | George C. Withey | Deering, 11 miles east of |
![]() | Holcocephala calva (Loew, 1872) | 1926 | C. Kennedy | [not stated] |
![]() | Cremastus Gravenhorst, 1829 | 1927 | L. Stearns | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 1854 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Little Storms Creek, within Strorm Creek' in book (may be incorrect) Lawrence township, near Kitts Hill, Lawrence township |
![]() | Natrix sipedon sipedon | 1928 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio |
![]() | Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1928 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio |
All 272 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Suiter: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brammer Const Co Pit No 1 | Clay | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ida (historical) | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Rappsburg | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Dobbston | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Polkadotte | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Wilgus | 2.8 miles | 15 | |
| Willow Wood | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Scottown | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Aid | 3.6 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076994. 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.


























