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

Sulphur Lick, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. The Survey maps it on the Chillicothe West quadrangle.

Sulphur Lick within Ross County

Then and now

1912 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sulphur Lick, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sulphur Lick, surveyed 1912

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

13 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Lick between 2002 and 2020, burning about 40 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 burning7
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 April 2009Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15171
26 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14416
25 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14412
24 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4948
3 November 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,583 shown

Museums hold 1,583 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sulphur Lick between 1874 and 1975: 1,150 Animalia, 349 Fungi, 77 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. Miller, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande 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 Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131895F. L. S.Ross County
Specimen of Puccinia tanaceti DC.Puccinia tanaceti DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
Specimen of Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.1895F. L. StevensRoss County
A photograph of the species Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Passiflora lutea, not of this specimenPassiflora lutea L.1885Safford, William EdwinChillicothe
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1896Selby, A. D.Chillicothe
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.1896Selby A. D.Chillicothe
A photograph of the species Elanoides forficatus, not of this specimenElanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Seip, J. (John)Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Heterosternuta wickhami, not of this specimenHeterosternuta wickhami (Zaitzev, 1908)1898Scott O'Dee
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901not recordedRoss, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophophanes Kaup, not of this specimenLophophanes Kaup, 18291901Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ross, Ohio, USA

All 1,583 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sulphur Lick: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fuller Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fuller Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ross County

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
Maple Grove1.0 miles14
Musselman1.4 miles11
Anderson2.5 miles14
Slate Mills3.3 miles14
Ebush (historical)3.6 miles14
Roxabell4.0 miles13
Pleasant Valley4.2 miles14
Frankfort4.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063041. 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.