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

Warsaw Junction, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43844. It stands on Flint Run. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw quadrangle.

Warsaw Junction within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Warsaw Junction, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Warsaw Junction, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

11 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Warsaw Junction between 2007 and 2020, burning about 182 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12005
20 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4745
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15529
24 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources764
14 March 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 820 shown

Museums hold 820 specimens collected within 10 miles of Warsaw Junction between 1846 and 1974: 693 Animalia, 68 Plantae, 55 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F. 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 Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.GrayDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1898Wetzstein, A.Rich woods, New Bremen.
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1942Harold N. Moldenkenear coshocton
Specimen of Cercospora barbareae (Sacc.) ChuppCercospora barbareae (Sacc.) Chupp1943Lawrence J. King; L.O. OverholtsWatershed 130
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 820 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Warsaw Junction: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Briar Hill QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton 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
Warsaw0.5 miles11
Nellie3.0 miles11
Metham3.0 miles16
Mohawk Village3.6 miles11
White Womans Town (historical)3.9 miles16
Randle4.3 miles16
New Princeton4.8 miles10
Blissfield5.5 miles17

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 Q122561341The 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 1065455. 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.