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

Swickards Addition, Ohio

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cross Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43953. It stands on Cedar Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Steubenville West quadrangle.

Swickards Addition within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 Swickards Addition, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Swickards Addition, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

24 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

19 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Swickards Addition between 2003 and 2020, burning about 37 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1781
9 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12885
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 533 shown

Museums hold 533 specimens collected within 10 miles of Swickards Addition between 1836 and 1974: 312 Animalia, 176 Plantae, 44 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1836Jewett
Specimen of Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Carex hirsutella, not of this specimenCarex hirsutella Mack.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium latifolium, not of this specimenDichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon, not of this specimenDichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Elymus hystrix, not of this specimenElymus hystrix L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, H.G.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1877Guttenberg, G.near Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum mutilum, not of this specimenHypericum mutilum L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum punctatum, not of this specimenHypericum punctatum Lam.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville

All 533 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Brentwood Estates0.3 miles24
Green Acres0.6 miles24
Forest View0.7 miles24
Canellas Park0.8 miles23
Reeds Mill1.1 miles24
Winterdale1.4 miles24
Beechwood1.5 miles23
Stuart Manor1.5 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1084632. 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.