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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.

Walnut within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Walnut, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Walnut, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1 since 2019

The 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 burning1

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
15 October 2019Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15349

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,580 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Aecidium galii Pers.Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda
Specimen of Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.1883W. A. KellermanAmanda
Specimen of Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1892W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121876Jones, H. (Howard)Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr1880W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Mearns, E.A.Circleville near Scioto River.
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1880Jones, H. (Howard)Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1882W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Atrichum undulatum, not of this specimenAtrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Auricularia auricula, not of this specimenAuricularia auricula (L.) Underw.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Bisporella pallescens, not of this specimenBisporella pallescens (Pers.) S.E.Carp. & Korf1882W. A. KellermanAmanda.

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Nebraska (historical)2.2 miles11
East Ringgold2.8 miles12
Marcy3.2 miles16
Saint Paul4.1 miles11
Ashville5.4 miles11
Little Chicago5.4 miles11
Cromley (historical)5.5 miles11
Ashton Crossing5.6 miles11

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 WalnutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698529The 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.