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

Yarico, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45678. It lies in Spot Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle.

Yarico within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Yarico, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Yarico, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

98 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Yarico between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,024 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 were 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/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning25
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
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
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestWILGUS
5 September 2020Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15824
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestSIMMS CREEK #1
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestTOWNHOUSE
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1661
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest790

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 194 shown

Museums hold 194 specimens collected within 10 miles of Yarico between 1840 and 1972: 184 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster, Cooper, C. (Carolyn) 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 Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Holcocephala calva, not of this specimenHolcocephala calva (Loew, 1872)1926C. Kennedy[not stated]
A photograph of the species Cremastus Gravenhorst, not of this specimenCremastus Gravenhorst, 18291927L. Stearns[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Peromyscus leucopus, not of this specimenPeromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio, USA
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Wolfram, G. (George)Elizabeth Twp.: Dean Forest, Lawrence Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1930MB TrautmanIndian Guyan Creek, trib of the Ohio River, Rome Twp

All 194 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yarico: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Arabia Lime QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Arabia Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Greasy Ridge1.3 miles14
Lecta1.7 miles14
Saundersville2.8 miles14
Okey3.1 miles14
Rappsburg3.1 miles15
Arabia3.5 miles14
Wilgus3.8 miles15
Waterloo4.4 miles14

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 Q122597951The 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 1077239. 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.