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

Youngs, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45657. It stands on Laurel Fork. The Survey maps it on the Rarden quadrangle.

Youngs within Scioto County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Youngs, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Youngs, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

46 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Youngs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 248 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
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
26 May 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15199
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12625
2 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution23 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12405
2 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesDRY FORK
24 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 499 shown

Museums hold 499 specimens collected within 10 miles of Youngs between 1893 and 1975: 387 Animalia, 97 Fungi, 14 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. W. Evermann, Bean & B. Evermann, Braun, E. Lucy 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 Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897F.L. StevensAlum Rock
Specimen of Ceriporia spissa (Schwein. ex Fr.) Rajchenb.Ceriporia spissa (Schwein. ex Fr.) Rajchenb.1937Cooke, William BridgeRock Run
Specimen of Coprinellus micaceus (Bull.) Vilgalys, Hopple & Jacq.JohnsonCoprinellus micaceus (Bull.) Vilgalys, Hopple & Jacq.Johnson1937Cooke, William BridgeRock Run
A photograph of the species Myelochroa galbina, not of this specimenMyelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale1893Jones, T.H.BOtway
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
Eratoneura minor (Beamer, 1932)1921McAtee
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Agnetina annulipes, not of this specimenAgnetina annulipes (Hagen, 1861)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Agnetina capitata, not of this specimenAgnetina capitata (Pictet, 1841)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Neoperla robisoni, not of this specimenNeoperla robisoni Poulton & Stewart, 19861925Clarence H. Kennedy
Neoperla stewarti Stark & Baumann, 19781925Clarence H. Kennedy

All 499 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 Youngs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Waller Bros QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms nearby

2 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Youngs in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
January 2023FloodYoungs-High water was reported in the Rarden area.
April 2016Flash FloodYoungs-State Route 73 at mile post 5 was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Otway2.4 miles12
Rarden2.5 miles13
Mount Joy4.0 miles13
Henley4.6 miles12
Crabtree5.4 miles12
Sedan5.7 miles12
Arion6.5 miles13
Lombardsville6.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049358. 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.