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Todds, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43728. It stands on Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Stockport quadrangle.

Todds within Morgan County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Todds, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Todds, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 printed 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.

In the county-history sources

21,341 words on this township

History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Marion Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Jack Byron and William Bowles were genuine backwoodsmen. Byron was a river boatman for some years. It is said the wife of Bowles lived for some years among the Indians, beingtaken captive by them when a young girl.

Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Marion Township.

Fires near this place

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Todds between 2015 and 2019, burning about 9 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14665
15 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14246
15 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11485
14 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15108
23 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7169
23 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7168
20 November 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2985
14 November 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2978

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 396 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 396 specimens collected within 10 miles of Todds between 1887 and 1974: 361 Animalia, 26 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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 Apocynum cannabinum L.Apocynum cannabinum L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrowe; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Campanulastrum americanum (L.) SmallCampanulastrum americanum (L.) Small1963William G. Gambill Jr.; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area.
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1903not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1904not recordedMeigs Creek
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus Schwein.1906Collector unspecifiedMcConnellsville
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1911B.R. BalesRinggold
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.MCCONNELSVILLE
Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)1927F. N.McConnelsville
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recordedMcConnelsville
Bezzia Kieffer, 18991927not recordedMcConnelsville

All 396 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Todds: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Chesterhill Stone Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Number 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Morgan 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
Chesterhill2.7 miles14
Stockport3.3 miles12
Westland3.3 miles13
Pennsville3.5 miles12
Elliott Crossroads5.2 miles13
Chadwick (historical)5.2 miles12
Roxbury5.2 miles14
Plantsville5.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063062. 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.