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

Tara Estates, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Addison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It stands on Campaign Creek. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle.

Tara Estates within Gallia County

Then and now

1908 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tara Estates, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Tara Estates, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

47 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Tara Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 were 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks2
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
15 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryREDMOND RIDGE ROAD
9 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWHITE RD.
15 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryKRODEL POND
13 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 June 1999Fireworksunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPT. PLEASANT
9 April 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPUMPKIN RUN
8 April 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPUMPKIN RUN
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 300 shown

Museums hold 300 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tara Estates between 1862 and 1973: 128 Animalia, 116 Fungi, 42 Plantae, 12 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., CLACK, LINDSAY 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 Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1862W. M. CanbyCheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis, not of this specimenColeosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces trifolii, not of this specimenUromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 18471891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Arthromacra aenea, not of this specimenArthromacra aenea1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus Meigen, not of this specimenChrysotus Meigen, 18241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus distinctus, not of this specimenChrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 19241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Liancalus genualis Loew, 18611900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 300 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tara Estates: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Eppling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt Epling Gallipolis DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gallia 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
Addison0.3 miles15
Bulaville1.9 miles15
Gilmore Heights2.7 miles16
Kanauga3.2 miles16
Cheshire4.4 miles16
Westbrook Village4.6 miles16
Mapleshade4.8 miles16
Hanersville5.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1698946. 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.