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

Zahns Corners, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Seal Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45690. The Survey maps it on the Waverly South quadrangle.

Zahns Corners within Pike County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Zahns Corners, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Zahns Corners, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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

61 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Zahns Corners between 2007 and 2020, burning about 290 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15226
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15221
8 July 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15213
7 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15212
8 June 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15742

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,527 shown

Museums hold 1,527 specimens collected within 10 miles of Zahns Corners between 1889 and 1975: 1,438 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed), B. W. Evermann 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 compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1889C. J. HerrickWaverly
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
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
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA

All 1,527 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Zahns Corners: 3 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
A & S Plant A-7 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
A & S Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Cutlip PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gregory Materials CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seal Builders S & G Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Seal Builders Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms nearby

4 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Zahns Corners in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 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
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Zahns Corners$70,000Numerous large tree limbs were down and other limbs were twisted due to the tornado. There was minor roof damage to a home in the area as well. A mobile home was blown off of its foundation and the underpinning was blown out from under another mobile home. In addition, windows were blown out of another residence and a storage shed was destroyed. The maximum wind speed based on damage is around 80 miles per hour.
March 2008FloodZahns Corners$2,000State Route 220 at River Road and State Route 124 at Dry Bone Road were flooded.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindZahns Corners$1,000Several small trees were downed across McCorkle Road.
April 2018FloodZahns Corners-High water resulted in a closure of a portion of State Route 124.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Rehm0.2 miles13
Greggs0.8 miles13
Givens2.1 miles13
Greggs Hill2.4 miles13
Bobo2.7 miles13
Piketon2.8 miles15
Beaver Pike Estates3.0 miles13
Van Meter3.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079597. 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.