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.
Then and now
1919 to 1991The 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 sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1919 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
8 since 2003The 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 33 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15455 |
| 23 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15033 |
| 22 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15910 |
| 5 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15981 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 823 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév. | 1929 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Cedar Run |
![]() | Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr. | 1929 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Cedar Run |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | Kellerman W. A. | Adams Co. |
![]() | Clavaria formosa Pers. | 1913 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Adams County, Ohio |
![]() | Craterellus Pers. | 1913 | Braun, E. Lucy | Adams County, Ohio |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
| Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1925 | E. L. Braun | West tributary of Beech Fork | |
| Crotalus horridus horridus | 1926 | Watters, G. T. (George Thomas) | Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio | |
![]() | Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 1799 | 1927 | Watters, 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gemmer | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Waggoner Ripple (historical) | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Lynx | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Squirrel Town | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Selig | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Grimes (historical) | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Moore (historical) | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Stout | 5.2 miles | 15 |
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 Tulip | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23698517 | The 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.
























