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

Sumner, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. It stands on Silver Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Alfred quadrangle.

Sumner within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sumner, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sumner, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

32 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Sumner between 2002 and 2019, burning about 86 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15268
27 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15260
2 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14146
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.8 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1442
25 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7831

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 291 shown

Museums hold 291 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sumner between 1831 and 1973: 251 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B A, C. H. Jones, Carroll H. D. 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 Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.1899Kellerman, W. A.FLORA OF OHIO
Specimen of Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1940Carroll, G.Big Spruce Creek
Specimen of Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) AlexanderOdontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander1963William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1840Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John LeonardMeigs County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Helminthosporium turcicum, not of this specimenHelminthosporium turcicum Pass.1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Isariopsis griseola, not of this specimenIsariopsis griseola Sacc.1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Uromyces appendiculatus, not of this specimenUromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Link1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1916Nixon, E. L.Pomeroy
A photograph of the species Noturus eleutherus, not of this specimenNoturus eleutherus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus stigmosus, not of this specimenNoturus stigmosus Taylor, 19691927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township

All 291 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2001

The National Weather Service names Sumner in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
February 2019FloodSumner$2,000The Shade River flooded near Chester, closing the Sugar Run Creek Bridge.||The river gage near Chester showed the Shade rose above its 17 foot bankfull level shortly after noon on the 20th. It crested just under 18 feet around sunrise on the 21st, and returned to its banks that afternoon.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSumner$1,500A tree blew down onto a power line along Skinner Road.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindSumner$1,000Large tree branches were snapped off.
October 2018HailSumner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Bucks Mill1.1 miles13
Alfred2.3 miles13
Meigs2.4 miles13
Flora3.3 miles13
Hemlock Grove3.4 miles14
Chester3.6 miles14
Keno4.4 miles15
Midway4.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049229. 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.