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Toboso, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43830. It stands on Black Hand Rock. The Survey maps it on the Toboso quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1966The 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 sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
Fires nearby
13 since 2011The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Toboso between 2011 and 2020, burning about 25 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9045 |
| 6 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15769 |
| 23 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12545 |
| 16 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15210 |
| 18 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1621 |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7054 |
| 17 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 6866 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 318 shownMuseums hold 318 specimens collected within 10 miles of Toboso between 1893 and 1975: 272 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Bartholomew E. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. | 1893 | Jones, H.L. | Toboso |
 | Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd. | 1922 | E. B. | Newark |
 | Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr. | 1894 | Bogue, E.E. | Black Hand |
 | Lysimachia quadriflora Sims | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
 | Smilax herbacea L. | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
 | Perlesta ephelida Grubbs & DeWalt, 2012 | 1899 | not recorded | Newark |
 | Perlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839) | 1899 | not recorded | Newark |
 | Ceresa bubalus Fabricius | 1913 | Smith, F. H. | Newark, Licking Co., OH |
 | Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856) | 1920 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Licking River, at Claylick, ~2.3 mi SW of Hanover, Madison township |
 | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1926 | not recorded | Cold Springs, within Licking Co (location in doubt), Licking County, township n/a |
 | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1926 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio |
 | Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807) | 1929 | Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.) | Flint Ridge Park, Hopewell Twp., Licking Co., Ohio |
All 318 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1080507. 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.