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

Trail, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Walnut Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44624. The Survey maps it on the Sugarcreek quadrangle.

Trail within Holmes County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Trail, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Trail, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

3 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Trail between 2009 and 2009, burning about 3 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	3

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
17 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 November 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 70 shown

Museums hold 70 specimens collected within 10 miles of Trail between 1893 and 1974: 61 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, B. Fink, C.F. Zuercher 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1896	Wetzstein, A.	Fryburg
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind	1914	B. Fink
Arachnion album Schwein.	1893	A. P. Morgan
Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Quercus rubra L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.
Salix alba L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1922	C.F. Zuercher	Goose Valley
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1924	C.F. Zuercher	Walnut Creek, north of
Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1925	C.F. Zuercher	Walnut Creek, near
Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 1819	1925	C.F. Zuercher	Berlin, Plains W of.
Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1926	C.F. Zuercher	Berlin, near

All 70 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Winesburg	1.9 miles	15
Walnut Creek	3.5 miles	15
Millers Corners	4.0 miles	16
Bunker Hill	4.2 miles	16
Mount Hope	4.8 miles	16
Berlin	5.1 miles	16
Limpytown	6.2 miles	15
Unionville	6.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1047127. 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.