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

The Eastern, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43908. It stands on Wolf Run. The Survey maps it on the Amsterdam quadrangle.

The Eastern within Jefferson County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

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 The Eastern, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of The Eastern, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

11 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of The Eastern between 2003 and 2018, burning about 21 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/undetermined4

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
5 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources721
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12909
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8205
12 April 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4128
22 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4127
19 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2525

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 198 shown

Museums hold 198 specimens collected within 10 miles of The Eastern between 1896 and 1974: 152 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Adams, 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 Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821930Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)9 mi W of Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pachydiplax longipennis, not of this specimenPachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister, 1839)1935Borror, D.J.Indian Lake
Helichus basalis LeConte, 18521939P. N. MusgraveRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Helichus lithophilus (Germar, 1824)1939P. N. MusgraveRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Optioservus ovalis (LeConte, 1863)1939P. N. MusgraveRichmond, Jefferson State Park

All 198 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
Circle Green1.4 miles16
Bergholz1.7 miles15
Wolf Run2.1 miles16
Amsterdam2.2 miles16
Middleburg3.0 miles16
Pravo3.7 miles13
East Springfield3.7 miles17
Shane5.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061682. 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.