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

Way, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45734. It lies in Cooper Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Graysville quadrangle.

Way within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Way, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Way, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

William McFadden House, .5 mile west of State Highway 260, Sycamore Valley, Monroe County, OH
William McFadden House, .5 mile west of State Highway 260, Sycamore Valley, Monroe County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

8 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Way between 2013 and 2020, burning about 16 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 burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 May 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWayne National ForestLAMPING FIRE
9 April 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources769
28 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestTWENTY SIX
26 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestJERICHO GAP FIRE
22 March 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources768
12 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWayne National ForestWITTEN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 293 shown

Museums hold 293 specimens collected within 10 miles of Way between 1853 and 1975: 274 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.

All 293 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Way in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWay$1,000Local law enforcement reported a tree down on State Route 537 south of Graysville and on County Road 102 near Merrill Ridge.
June 2019Flash FloodWay-A member of the public reported that Straight Fork was out of its banks overnight after excessive rainfall.
June 2019Flash FloodWay-The public reported that Clear Fork was out of its banks.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Graham1.5 miles17
Graysville1.8 miles17
Marr2.4 miles17
Cline2.6 miles16
Sprague3.2 miles17
Greenbrier3.5 miles17
Sycamore Valley3.6 miles17
Quarry (historical)3.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079971. 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.