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Swartz Mill, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Berne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43155. It stands on Durbin Run. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle.

Swartz Mill within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Swartz Mill, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Swartz Mill, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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.

In the 1901 county history

2,331 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Berne Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Berne Township - 2,331 words.

Fires nearby

33 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Swartz Mill between 2003 and 2020, burning about 157 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 burning14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
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
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15676
20 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7937
15 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7867
14 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7850
10 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15468
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7326

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,460 shown

Museums hold 1,460 specimens collected within 10 miles of Swartz Mill between 1839 and 1975: 877 Animalia, 339 Fungi, 230 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

All 1,460 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 Swartz Mill: 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
Morris Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morris Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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
Pleasant Hill2.8 miles13
Sugar Grove2.9 miles13
Horns Mill3.2 miles13
Blue Valley Acres3.4 miles13
Geneva3.8 miles13
North Berne5.1 miles13
Pine Lake Estates5.9 miles13
Bremen6.0 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122566465The 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 1063046. 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.