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.
Then and now
1928 to 1991The 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 sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ash Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ash Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ash Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the 1883 county history
7,543 words on this townshipThe 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 2002The 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/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16058 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 305 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Hirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk | 1903 | Blickle, A.H. | Brown County, Ohio |
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1916 | A. B. Seymour | |
![]() | Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939) | 1929 | A. Braun | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Valsa ludibunda Sacc. | 1885 | Rev. C. H. Demetrio | (a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J. |
| Chordata | 1886 | Smithsonian Institution | ||
![]() | Equisetum hyemale L. | 1897 | Kreke, Fr. M. | Arnheim |
![]() | Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter | 1905 | Stephens J. | Mt. Orab |
![]() | Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst. | 1907 | Berry M. D.? | Georgetown |
![]() | Perenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden | 1909 | J. P. Tracy | |
| Secotium agaricoides (Czern.) Hollós | 1913 | Lyon C. D. | Georgetown | |
![]() | Anaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain. | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak Creek |
![]() | Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak |
All 305 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
2 since 2013The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Arnheim | $10,000 | A barn was heavily damaged due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2022 | Hail | West Arnheim | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Wahlsburg | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Wahlsburg | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Arnheim | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Whiteoak Springs (historical) | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| New Hope | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| White Oak Valley | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Brownstown | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Sunshine (historical) | 3.3 miles | 10 |
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 Q122598672 | The 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.




















