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

Warrentown, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43755. It stands on Beeham Run. The Survey maps it on the Old Washington quadrangle.

Warrentown within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Warrentown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Warrentown, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

17 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Warrentown between 2013 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
16 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1862
21 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5205
12 July 2016Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5165
8 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1281
8 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15613
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15174
15 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15652

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 353 shown

Museums hold 353 specimens collected within 10 miles of Warrentown between 1875 and 1975: 136 Fungi, 128 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.1922F. O. GroverBlack swamp
Specimen of Clavaria kunzei Fr.Clavaria kunzei Fr.1923Treat, DorothyBirmingham
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Enslenia albida, not of this specimenEnslenia albida Nutt.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Impatiens pallida, not of this specimenImpatiens pallida Nutt.1875Lloyd, Curtis GatesFairmont
A photograph of the species Stereum spadiceum, not of this specimenStereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.1893Holden Wm.College Hill
Favolus europaeus Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Lenzites trabeus, not of this specimenLenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Pleurotus nidulans, not of this specimenPleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Polystictus versicolor, not of this specimenPolystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Trametes malicola, not of this specimenTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1895Holden Wm.College Hill

All 353 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Warrentown in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWarrentown$500A park employee reported large limbs down.
June 2020Flash FloodWarrentown-Flooding was reported along Beeham Run Road.
June 2013HailWarrentown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Brady1.2 miles17
Clio (historical)1.2 miles15
Center2.2 miles15
Old Washington3.1 miles17
Craig3.5 miles15
Coventry Estates3.8 miles15
Easton3.9 miles17
Winterset4.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049291. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.