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Tuppers Plains, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45772. It stands on Limberger Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Coolville quadrangle. 438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Tuppers Plains within Meigs County

Population over time

2 figures

Tuppers Plains fell from 465 to 438 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010465
2020438-27 (-6%)

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tuppers Plains, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Tuppers Plains, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

29 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tuppers Plains between 2002 and 2020, burning about 50 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
6 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1861
2 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14146
25 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7831
8 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 226 shown

Museums hold 226 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tuppers Plains between 1831 and 1973: 215 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B A, C. H. Jones, Carroll H. D. 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 Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.1899Kellerman, W. A.FLORA OF OHIO
Specimen of Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1940Carroll, G.Big Spruce Creek
Specimen of Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) HolubDiphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub1964Wistendahl, J.D.Athens. Sportsman Club Road, roadside ravine. Forked Run State Park.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Helminthosporium turcicum, not of this specimenHelminthosporium turcicum Pass.1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Isariopsis griseola, not of this specimenIsariopsis griseola Sacc.1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Uromyces appendiculatus, not of this specimenUromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Link1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Noturus eleutherus, not of this specimenNoturus eleutherus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus stigmosus, not of this specimenNoturus stigmosus Taylor, 19691927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asst.Shade River, trib of Ohio River, at Chester, center of Chester county
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB TrautmanMiddle Branch of Shade River, SW Orange Twp.

All 226 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Tuppers Plains in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
April 1996Thunderstorm WindTuppers Plains$10,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindTuppers Plains$2,000Power lines were knocked down by fallen trees.
June 2007HailTuppers Plains-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Pinegrove1.1 miles14
Success2.4 miles14
Meigs2.7 miles13
Joppa2.8 miles14
Alfred4.0 miles13
Fayal (historical)4.5 miles15
Sumner4.7 miles13
Eden4.7 miles14

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 Tuppers PlainsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472744The 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 1070968. 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.