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

Sunset Valley, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44675. The Survey maps it on the Mineral City quadrangle.

Sunset Valley within Carroll County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Sunset Valley, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sunset Valley, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

20 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sunset Valley between 2003 and 2019, burning about 234 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13825
30 May 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burning3.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources817
12 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1211
12 April 2014Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 158 shown

Museums hold 158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sunset Valley between 1905 and 1975: 148 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, E. J., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Baker, C. W. 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 Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1970Jones, G.T.moist wooded river valley west of Leesville
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Cardamine bulbosa, not of this specimenCardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1905Ortmann, A.E.Bowerston
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Achalarus lyciades, not of this specimenAchalarus lyciades (Geyer, 1832)1927C.W. Baker
A photograph of the species Pleurotus ulmarius, not of this specimenPleurotus ulmarius (Bull.) P.Kumm.1927not recordedBowerston
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township

All 158 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 Sunset Valley: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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
Conotton Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Conotton Valley QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Barrick0.1 miles17
Atwood Village0.4 miles16
Cove Cottage Area1.0 miles16
Atwood Cove1.1 miles16
Atwood Crossing1.4 miles16
Arrowhead1.5 miles16
Atwood (historical)1.5 miles16
Pines Cottage Area1.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1052409. 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.