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West Carlisle, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43844. The Survey maps it on the Trinway quadrangle.

West Carlisle within Coshocton County

Then and now

1910 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 56 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 Carlisle, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of West Carlisle, surveyed 1910

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

18 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of West Carlisle between 2014 and 2020, burning about 64 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15288
7 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5226
16 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8625
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15158
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11168
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11166
22 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13066

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 389 shown

Museums hold 389 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Carlisle between 1924 and 1974: 370 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Baumgartner, Binning, M. B., C. Stein 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
A photograph of the species Celastrina ladon, not of this specimenCelastrina ladon (Cramer, 1782)1924Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Bedford Twp., Coshocton Co., OH
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Walhonding R., NW Newcastle Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding River, Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Walhonding River, at confluence of Mohican and Kokosing Rivers, 6.5 mi W of Nellie, Newcastle township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Walhonding River, at confluence of Mohican and Kokosing Rivers, 6.5 mi W of Nellie, Newcastle township

All 389 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 West Carlisle: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Delaware Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Coshocton County

Storms nearby

1 since 2024

The National Weather Service names West Carlisle in 1 storm report between 2024 and 2024: 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Carlisle$10,000Trees were downed along State Route 79.

Every storm 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
Cooperdale2.9 miles11
West Bedford3.0 miles11
Graham Corners3.3 miles11
Tunnel Hill4.1 miles11
Wakatomika4.3 miles11
New Guilford4.9 miles12
Mohawk Village6.9 miles11
Tyrone7.6 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on West CarlisleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18378591The 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 1049305. 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.

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.