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

Tucson, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. It stands on Piny Run. The Survey maps it on the Londonderry quadrangle.

Tucson within Ross County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tucson, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Tucson, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

26 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Tucson between 2008 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15230
20 June 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6640
28 May 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6627
29 April 2015Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1081
27 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1329

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,374 shown

Museums hold 1,374 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tucson between 1845 and 1975: 997 Animalia, 281 Fungi, 89 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. Cronquist, A. Miller 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 unnamed1906M.E. Hard
Specimen of Amanita strobiliformis (Paulet ex Vittad.) Bertill.Amanita strobiliformis (Paulet ex Vittad.) Bertill.1906Hard, MironChillicothe
Specimen of Boletus L.Boletus L.1906Hard, MironChillicothe
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum dumosum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom1845L. L. Pontius3 mi E of Kingston.
A photograph of the species Passiflora lutea, not of this specimenPassiflora lutea L.1885Safford, William EdwinChillicothe
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1896Selby, A. D.Chillicothe
Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.1896Selby A. D.Chillicothe
A photograph of the species Armillaria mellea, not of this specimenArmillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.1902Hard, MironChillicothe
A photograph of the species Collybia velutipes, not of this specimenCollybia velutipes (Curtis) P.Kumm.1902Hard, MironChillicothe
A photograph of the species Geaster campestre, not of this specimenGeaster campestre Morgan1902Hard, MironChillicothe
Hypholoma sublateritium (Fr.) Quél.1902Hard, MironChillicothe
A photograph of the species Panus stipticus, not of this specimenPanus stipticus (Bull.) Fr.1902Hard, MironChillicothe

All 1,374 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Tucson in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012Thunderstorm WindTucson$10,000Numerous trees were downed in Tar Hollow State Forest due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindTucson$3,000Several trees were knocked down along Hough Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTucson$3,000Numerous large tree limbs were downed near Tar Hollow State Park.
June 2025Flash FloodTucson-Water was rushing over Walnut Creek Road.
June 2025Flash FloodTucson-Flowing water was approaching the lowest level of a home.
July 2025Flash FloodTucson-Thornton-Sprung Road at Walnut Creek Road was flooded.
June 2019FloodTucson-A portion of Walnut Creek Road was closed due to high water. Several other high water signs were put out throughout the county.
June 2018FloodTucson-Water was reported over a portion of the road in the 1600 block of True Hollow Road.

Every storm recorded in Ross 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
Charleston (historical)1.0 miles12
Mooresville2.4 miles12
Jarvis3.5 miles15
Poe Valley (historical)4.9 miles12
Feightner (historical)5.7 miles15
Schrader5.7 miles15
Hallsville6.0 miles12
Renick Junction6.4 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on TucsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22250075The 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 1063066. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.