Ural, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45651. It lies in Hoagland Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Zaleski quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
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.
- 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
18 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Ural (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1427 |
| 2 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12125 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11011 |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15691 |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11525 |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3634 |
| 31 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 632 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,186 shownMuseums hold 1,186 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ural (historical) between 1900 and 1975: 1,110 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 37 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W., Atkinson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr | 1936 | C. C. Green | Waterloo State Forest |
![]() | Acordulecera dorsalis | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Acordulecera mellina | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
| Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
![]() | Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States |
| Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Argyra minuta Loew, 1861 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892) | 1900 | Hine | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Calobata antennaepes Say, 1823 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Capnochroa LeConte, 1862 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Cephalops Fallén, 1810 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
All 1,186 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prattsville | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Zaleski | 1.8 miles | 15 | |
| Red Diamond | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Vinton | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hope | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Elk Fork | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Knox | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Pincher (historical) | 5.1 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062150. 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.



















