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

Tulip, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45650. It lies in Morrison Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Tulip within Adams County

Then and now

1919 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tulip, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Tulip, surveyed 1919

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

8 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Tulip between 2003 and 2020, burning about 68 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Recreation and ceremony33 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15455
23 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15033
22 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15910
5 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15981

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 823 shown

Museums hold 823 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tulip between 1866 and 1975: 547 Animalia, 168 Fungi, 92 Plantae, 16 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. P. Boesel 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.1929Fulford, Margaret H.Cedar Run
Specimen of Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.1929Fulford, Margaret H.Cedar Run
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Puccinia smilacis, not of this specimenPuccinia smilacis Schwein.1900Kellerman W. A.Adams Co.
A photograph of the species Clavaria formosa, not of this specimenClavaria formosa Pers.1913Fulford, Margaret H.Adams County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Craterellus Pers., not of this specimenCraterellus Pers.1913Braun, E. LucyAdams County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.1925E. L. BraunWest tributary of Beech Fork
Crotalus horridus horridus1926Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Agkistrodon contortrix, not of this specimenAgkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 17991927Watters, G. (George)Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA

All 823 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Gemmer2.1 miles15
Waggoner Ripple (historical)2.1 miles15
Lynx2.7 miles12
Squirrel Town3.2 miles15
Selig3.3 miles13
Grimes (historical)4.3 miles15
Moore (historical)4.5 miles12
Stout5.2 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 TulipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698517The 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 1063067. 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.