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

Winameg, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43515. It stands on South Branch Bad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle.

Winameg within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Winameg, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Winameg, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

8 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Winameg between 2006 and 2020, burning about 22 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15731
29 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 February 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 650 shown

Museums hold 650 specimens collected within 10 miles of Winameg between 1894 and 1975: 629 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by DDT, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T., Edward Wilkinson 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 Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Edward WilkinsonWauseon
Specimen of Capnodium Mont., 1849Capnodium Mont., 18491928W.M. BurkettMetamora
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gomphus fraternus, not of this specimenGomphus fraternus (Say, 1840)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Sympetrum corruptum, not of this specimenSympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631902not recordedWauseon
Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Pucciniastrum americanum, not of this specimenPucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur1902W.A. Kellerman
Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 19161902HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA

All 650 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Winameg in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 2 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWinameg-A trained spotter reported a tree was blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWinameg-County dispatch reported power poles were down near the intersection of County Roads J and 10-2.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Advance2.7 miles15
Ottokee4.1 miles15
Siney (historical)4.2 miles12
Delta Heights4.3 miles15
West Delta4.4 miles15
Haller (historical)4.5 miles15
Delta4.9 miles15
Lyons5.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079973. 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.