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Wahanaker, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. The Survey maps it on the New Matamoras quadrangle.

Wahanaker within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wahanaker, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Wahanaker, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

15 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Wahanaker between 1992 and 2018, burning about 23 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
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
2 May 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 2
2 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCHERRY STREET
3 April 1995Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPADEN CITY
24 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4672
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources651
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresWayne National ForestOLD CAMP ROAD
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources648
31 March 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySISTERVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 320 shown

Museums hold 320 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wahanaker between 1911 and 1975: 300 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Dysphania botrys, not of this specimenDysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.1928Archer, W. A.Greenbrier
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Ohio River tributary, within north of Fly in Jackson township, near Sistersville, Jackson township
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, within south Washington township, near Brownsville, Washington township
A photograph of the species Natrix septemvittata, not of this specimenNatrix septemvittata (Say, 1825)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, Ex north Ludlow township, ~5.1 mi W of Brownsville, Ludlow township

All 320 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wahanaker: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mcdonough PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Virginian DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Brownsville1.4 miles18
Trail Run (historical)1.9 miles18
Stringtown (historical)3.1 miles18
Fly3.2 miles18
Jericho3.2 miles18
Centerview (historical)3.4 miles18
Alexis3.5 miles17
Poulton3.6 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122573099The 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 1068266. 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.