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Summit Station, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pataskala City. It lies in ZIP code area 43068. The Survey maps it on the Reynoldsburg quadrangle. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Summit Station within Licking County

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Summit Station, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Summit Station, surveyed 1925

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

4 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Summit Station between 2009 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15770
28 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15730
9 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 502 shown

Museums hold 502 specimens collected within 10 miles of Summit Station between 1890 and 1975: 480 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C.C. Green, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Collector(s): Samuel S. Sweet 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 Puccinia seymeriae, not of this specimenPuccinia seymeriae Burrill1890not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Gibberella saubinetii, not of this specimenGibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1894not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Polyporus biennis, not of this specimenPolyporus biennis (Bull.) Fr.1911Overholts, L. O.West Elkton o around beech stump
A photograph of the species Polyporus giganteus, not of this specimenPolyporus giganteus (Pers.) Fr.1915Leeper, BurttSalem o around beech stump
A photograph of the species Tremellodon gelatinosus, not of this specimenTremellodon gelatinosus (Scop.) Fr.1935G. W. MartinOld Man's Cave State Park
A photograph of the species Dothistroma pini, not of this specimenDothistroma pini Hulbary1936C.C. GreenOld Man's Grove
A photograph of the species Tabanus trimaculatus, not of this specimenTabanus trimaculatus Palisot de Beauvois, 18061946Edw S ThomasAsh Cave
A photograph of the species Thuidium delicatulum, not of this specimenThuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1950L. J. GierWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1975Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.S.Fk.Licking River, Ramp Creek on TR 40 about 0.1 mi S of SR 16
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451975Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.S.Fk.Licking River, Ramp Creek on TR 40 about 0.1 mi S of SR 16
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201975Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.Ramp Creek on TR 40 about 0.1mi south of SR 16
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1975Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.Ramp Creek on TR 40 about 0.1mi south of SR 16

All 502 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Summit Station: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Abel Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Licking County

Storms nearby

9 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Summit Station in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSummit Station$5,000Trees were downed, some on power lines.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindSummit Station$3,000Some sheet metal was removed from a roof.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindSummit Station$3,000A few large branches and power lines were downed.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit Station$2,000A tree was downed onto power lines along Cleveland Road Southwest.
August 2021Flash FloodSummit Station-Eight to ten inches of water was flowing across a roadway.
June 2014FloodSummit Station-Taylor Road was blocked by high water caused by heavy rainfall.
June 2014FloodSummit Station-High water remained across Taylor Road due to earlier heavy rainfall.
December 2013FloodSummit Station-Ponding of water was reported across Havens Corner Road due to rain and snow melt.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindSummit Station-Winds were reported at 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Fursville1.9 miles10
Columbia Center3.0 miles13
Wagram3.0 miles13
Moreland Corners3.4 miles10
Pataskala4.1 miles13
Jersey4.2 miles10
Etna4.6 miles13
Beech5.7 miles12

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 Summit StationAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716818The 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 1049228. 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.

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.