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Sullivan, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sullivan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44880. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan quadrangle. 603 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1904 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 82 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
12 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.
- 1904 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
9 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sullivan between 2019 and 2020, burning about 19 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 burning | 5 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15219 |
| 13 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15779 |
| 13 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15780 |
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15641 |
| 8 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15905 |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15901 |
| 27 November 2019 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15366 |
| 22 October 2019 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15365 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 123 shownMuseums hold 123 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sullivan between 1897 and 1971: 95 Animalia, 22 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1897 | Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea | Albion |
 | Mentha spicata L. | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Albion |
 | Smilax tamnoides L. | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Red Haw |
 | Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst. | 1905 | Fair D. R. | Ruggles |
| Septoria pyricola Desm. | 1905 | Fair D. R. | Ruggles | |
 | Sphaeropsis malorum (Berk.) Berk. | 1905 | Fair D. R. | Ruggles |
 | Amphiagrion saucium (Burmeister, 1839) | 1916 | not recorded | Sullivan |
 | Conocephalus attenuatus (Scudder, 1869) | 1925 | Pallister, J. C. (John C.) | Vermilion River, TR 608 RM 62.1, 1.14 miles west of Savannah OH, Clear Creek township |
 | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
 | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
 | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
 | Semotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork tributary, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
All 123 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
16 since 1994The National Weather Service names Sullivan in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Sullivan | $1,400,000 | A storm survey was conducted and an EF1 tornado was confirmed in northeastern Ashland County. The tornado touched down northeast of Sullivan along Black River School Road just to the west of the Medina County line. Two school buildings were damaged by the tornado. One of the schools lost a section of roofing over a gymnasium. Sections of roofing along the remainder of the building were lifted and buckled by tornado winds. Significant amounts of rain water got into the building as a result of this roof damage. Water damage in the school was extensive and the gymnasium floor will need replacement. A modular building used as a classroom also sustained damage. Fences surrounding recreational fields at the school were also damaged. A house across the road from the schools was slightly damaged and a communication tower nearby was toppled. Many trees were downed. The tornado had a damage path around one half mile in length and about 30 yards in width. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sullivan | $50,000 | Trees were downed, some on power lines, with at least one damaging a house. |
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sullivan | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off of a building in Sullivan. Two people inside the building were briefly trapped. |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Sullivan | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sullivan | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sullivan | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sullivan | $1,000 | A few large limbs were reported down. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sullivan | - | Trees downed along the 800 block of County Road 500 in Ashland County, about five-miles ENE of Savannah. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Sullivan | - | State Route 58 and County Road 281 closed due to flooding of East Branch Black River in Sullivan Township in northeast Ashland County. Radar estimated 3 to 3.5 inches of rainfall in a 2 to 3 hours period. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Sullivan | - | Thunderstorms produced nickel to quarter size hail. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Sullivan | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Sullivan | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Sullivan | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sullivan | - | Estimated wind gusts of 60 miles per hour were reported at Sullivan and also at Savannah approximately 10 miles to the southwest. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Sullivan | - | Large hail fell at Cinnamon Lake. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Sullivan | - | no account filed |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Sullivan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7636376 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1046844. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.