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

Welsh Hills, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Newark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43055. It lies in Sharon Valley. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle.

Welsh Hills within Licking County

Then and now

1909 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Welsh Hills, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Welsh Hills, surveyed 1909

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 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Welsh Hills between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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
10 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15953

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,249 shown

Museums hold 2,249 specimens collected within 10 miles of Welsh Hills between 1853 and 1975: 2,032 Animalia, 172 Fungi, 26 Protozoa, 16 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. M., A. P. Morgan, A. R. Elliott 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
Specimen of Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.1893H. L. Jones
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking, Ohio, USA
Anas acuta Linnaeus, 17581881not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 17581881not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,249 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Welsh Hills: 2 plants, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dry Creek Crushed Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Dry Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Dry Creek Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newark No. 214 Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Licking 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
Blanchard (historical)1.9 miles12
Granville3.0 miles10
Central City (historical)3.4 miles12
Vanatta3.5 miles10
Newark3.9 miles12
Idlewild Park (historical)4.3 miles12
Heath4.4 miles12
Union Station5.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062592. 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.