Block
Townline, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Royalton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43533. It stands on Little Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Assumption quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1911 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 75 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
12 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.
- 1911 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
5 since 2007The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Townline (historical) between 2007 and 2011, burning about 1 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 burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 608 shownMuseums hold 608 specimens collected within 10 miles of Townline (historical) between 1894 and 1973: 598 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Adams, S., Davis, H.A.; Davis, T., Fausey, H. (Howard) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Capnodium Mont., 1849 | 1928 | W.M. Burkett | Metamora |
 | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
 | Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Fulton, Ohio, USA |
 | Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
 | Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
 | Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman | Bad Creek, in southeastern Pike Twnp, just north of village of Delta |
 | Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Swan Cr. Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio |
| Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Swan Cr. Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio | |
 | Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Pike Twp.: Bad Creek, Fulton Co., Ohio |
 | Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825 | 1929 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Clinton Twp: W. of Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio |
 | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Royalton Twp., Fulton Co., Ohio |
All 608 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteville | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Seward | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Leslie (historical) | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Champion | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Siney (historical) | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Lyons | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Lytton | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Metamora | 4.7 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067164. 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.