Walnut, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43103. The Survey maps it on the East Ringgold quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1914 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1914 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
1 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Walnut between 2019 and 2019, burning about 10 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 burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15349 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,580 shownMuseums hold 1,580 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walnut between 1876 and 1975: 1,398 Animalia, 141 Fungi, 39 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Bartley, F., Arledge, F., B. R. & B. D. Bales 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium galii Pers. | 1883 | Kellerman, W.A. | Amanda |
![]() | Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | Amanda |
![]() | Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1892 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812 | 1876 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Bartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr | 1880 | W. Kellerman | |
![]() | Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | Mearns, E.A. | Circleville near Scioto River. |
![]() | Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818) | 1880 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio |
| Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1882 | W. Kellerman | ||
![]() | Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Auricularia auricula (L.) Underw. | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Bisporella pallescens (Pers.) S.E.Carp. & Korf | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | Amanda. |
All 1,580 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska (historical) | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| East Ringgold | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Marcy | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Paul | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ashville | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Little Chicago | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Cromley (historical) | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Ashton Crossing | 5.6 miles | 11 |
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 Walnut | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23698529 | The 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 1063080. 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.






















