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West Arnheim, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45121. The Survey maps it on the Ash Ridge quadrangle.

West Arnheim within Brown County

Then and now

1928 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Arnheim, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of West Arnheim, surveyed 1928

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.

In the 1883 county history

7,543 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Franklin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Franklin Township - 7,543 words.

Fires nearby

3 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of West Arnheim between 2002 and 2020, burning about 27 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16058

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 305 shown

Museums hold 305 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Arnheim between 1885 and 1974: 222 Animalia, 73 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, A. Braun 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 Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Valsa ludibunda, not of this specimenValsa ludibunda Sacc.1885Rev. C. H. Demetrio(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale L.1897Kreke, Fr. M.Arnheim
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1907Berry M. D.?Georgetown
A photograph of the species Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
Secotium agaricoides (Czern.) Hollós1913Lyon C. D.Georgetown
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak

All 305 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2013

The National Weather Service names West Arnheim in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindWest Arnheim$10,000A barn was heavily damaged due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2022HailWest Arnheim-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
East Wahlsburg1.7 miles11
Wahlsburg2.1 miles10
Arnheim2.4 miles11
Whiteoak Springs (historical)2.8 miles10
New Hope2.9 miles10
White Oak Valley3.0 miles10
Brownstown3.1 miles11
Sunshine (historical)3.3 miles10

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 Q122598672The 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 1053138. 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.