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

Vulcan, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wellsville Village. It lies in ZIP code area 43968. It stands on McQueen Run. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle.

Vulcan within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vulcan, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Vulcan, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

18 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Vulcan between 1993 and 2020, burning about 38 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
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryKITCHEL AVE. NEAR NEWELL
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryARROYO ROAD
8 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCRESENT
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
6 April 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryAUBURN DR/LOCUST HILL
6 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEWELL
25 April 1994Debris and open burning10 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryLOCUST HILL ROAD
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13846

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 384 shown

Museums hold 384 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vulcan between 1889 and 1975: 271 Animalia, 99 Plantae, 14 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Mac Gillivroy, Albert Peyron, Athearn, Herbert 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr.Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr.1923F.O. GroverOn Campus
Specimen of Dryopteris × triploidea WherryDryopteris × triploidea Wherry1967Cusick, A.W.pinnae at right angles to rachis; rich woods in small ravine, Middle fork Valley near Lusk's Lock, Beaver Creek State Park, Section 27, Elk Run Twp.
A photograph of the species Polistes annularis, not of this specimenPolistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763)1889A. D. Mac GillivroySalineville
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1889not recordedSalineville
Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840)1891not recorded
Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864)1892unknownSalineville
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1892not recordedSalineville
Megachile mendica Cresson, 18781892unknownSalineville
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry

All 384 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Vulcan: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wellsville PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Globe Number 1 MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Globe Refractories, Inc.ClayProducer
H.K. Porter Brick PlantClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbiana 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
Wellsville1.2 miles22
Hillcrest2.5 miles20
Walkers3.3 miles22
Spring Grove3.5 miles22
New Salisbury3.7 miles22
Jethro4.4 miles22
Glasgow4.7 miles20
Pleasant Heights4.9 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067673. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.