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Wainwright, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45692. It stands on Meadow Run. The Survey maps it on the Mulga quadrangle.

Wainwright within Jackson County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wainwright, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Wainwright, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

30 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wainwright between 2009 and 2019, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
30 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11885
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15175
24 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 772 shown

Museums hold 772 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wainwright between 1878 and 1975: 494 Animalia, 232 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., A. Cronquist, Bartley, F. (Floyd) 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 Metzgeria furcata (L.) CordaMetzgeria furcata (L.) Corda1925Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1915Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
A photograph of the species Trametes robiniophila, not of this specimenTrametes robiniophila Murrill1916MCCLEDROTLE G. A.?Coalton
A photograph of the species Eriophyes laevis, not of this specimenEriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889)1923Miller, A. E. (August E.)Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A.
unnamed1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Bazzania trilobata, not of this specimenBazzania trilobata (L.) Gray1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Calypogeia trichomanis, not of this specimenCalypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch

All 772 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 Wainwright: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hamden Pit Number 2ClayPast Producer
Vinton County Highway Dept QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Ratchford0.9 miles14
Mulga1.2 miles13
Wellston2.3 miles14
Comet3.3 miles14
Roads3.8 miles14
Latrobe (historical)3.8 miles14
Ironton Junction4.0 miles14
Goldsboro4.2 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 WainwrightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7960218The 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 1058102. 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.