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

Tilton Crossroads, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Fallsbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43822. It stands on Fox Den Knob. The Survey maps it on the Perryton quadrangle.

Tilton Crossroads within Licking County

Then and now

1910 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tilton Crossroads, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Tilton Crossroads, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

18 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Tilton Crossroads between 2014 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning13
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8807
25 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12525
22 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11607
1 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15065
25 March 2017Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7747

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 403 shown

Museums hold 403 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tilton Crossroads between 1893 and 1975: 387 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.1893Jones, H.L.Toboso
A photograph of the species Cladonia symphycarpa, not of this specimenCladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.1894Bogue, E.E.Black Hand
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Mills, W. C.Mt. Vernon, 1 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lysimachia quadriflora, not of this specimenLysimachia quadriflora Sims1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Smilax herbacea, not of this specimenSmilax herbacea L.1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1896Parker, J. B.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Williamson, E. G.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1898Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Parker, J. P.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA

All 403 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
Reform2.3 miles11
Fallsburg2.3 miles10
Rocky Fork2.6 miles11
Perryton2.8 miles10
Rain Rock2.9 miles11
Long Run (historical)3.4 miles11
Hickman3.8 miles11
Frampton4.4 miles10

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 Q122540634The 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 1063060. 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.