80 topographic sheets and 23 fire insurance
atlases across 4 places.
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5 National Register listings · 7 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1897 to 1950 · the 1900 county history tells 0 stories and names 4 people · people the book names include Robert Alexander (Freeport Township, 1900) (machine-read).
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What the record shows
4 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Cadiz, Scio, Jewett, Bowerston, between 1887 and 1950.
23 fire insurance atlas(es) survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
980 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
5 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places, including 2 houses and farms.
2 of the 5 listings were added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 63 populated places in this county; 0 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
1 public-domain county history, 1900, supply 92,937 words of narrative reproduced here in full.
Places on the National Register
5
Every property in this county listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the
federal nomination document.
Harrison County holds 0 covered bridges on
the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed
structure with a federal nomination on file.
Digitised newspapers
14 issues
Sampled issues, machine-read from the
Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline
and column is searchable text.
The Cadiz Democratic Sentinel
Cadiz, Ohio, 1854 to 1864. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.
Drawn when these were printed as
single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county
divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the
original at the Library of Congress.
Bird's-eye view (1899) - Scio, Harrison County, Ohio 1899. Library of Congress.Bird's-eye view (1899) - Scio, Harrison County, Ohio. Library of Congress.Land ownership map (1850) - Map of Crawford County, Ohio. Library of Congress.Land ownership map (1862) - Map of Harrison County, O.. Library of Congress.
Photographs from libraries nationwide
1 of 2 shown
Selected from the Digital Public Library
of America's 2 image records catalogued for this county. Every
one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits
reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike
and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the
county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's
bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's
record, and
the complete set at the
Digital Public Library of America is one click away.
"General Custer Hotel", Cadiz, Ohio. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.
The county from the air
28 of 435 shown
Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey
between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is
the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers
as the camera saw them. 435 frames touch this county; the
selection below spreads across the decades of flights (at most four
per year), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is
free to browse and download at
EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single
Frames.
1948-09-01, scale 1:76626. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1948-09-01, scale 1:76626. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1948-09-01, scale 1:76942. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1948-09-01, scale 1:76942. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1958-04-09, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1958-04-09, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1958-04-09, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1958-04-09, scale 1:27000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-02-25, scale 1:29000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-02-25, scale 1:29000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-02-25, scale 1:29000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1959-02-25, scale 1:29000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1960-04-22, scale 1:28000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-04-16, scale 1:98201. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-04-16, scale 1:98201. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-04-16, scale 1:96586. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1971-04-16, scale 1:96586. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-11, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-11, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-11, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1972-05-11, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1976-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1976-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1976-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.1976-04-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
Weather records
7 stations, 19 gages
The thermometers that kept this
county's weather, and the gages that watched its rivers, as the
federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values
from those records, not estimates.
CADIZ1893 to 2009, hottest 41.1 C, coldest -27.2 C
Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration
district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district.
Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population
Schedules and ED Maps available there.
34-15Green township: Hopedale village: Hopedale village - That part Bounded by Village limits; Village limits; 5th; High or Main, Cadiz - Steubenville, Miller's Sta. Ave.
34-16Hopedale village - That part Bounded by Village limits; Miller's Sta. Ave., Cadiz - Steubenville, High or Main, 5th, Village limits; Village limits; Village limits
34-17Green township - That part north of U.S. Hwy. 22, outside Hopedale village
34-18Green township - That part south of U.S. Hwy. 22, outside Hopedale village
Every Sanborn volume opens with a printed index
naming the town's mills, tanneries, hotels and works by proprietor. Those
indexes were read off the scanned sheets by machine and then matched to each
other, so a business surveyed four times appears here once, with the years it
survived. 0 of these 7 were named in more than one atlas. Each carries a
crop of the line it was read from: the spelling is the recogniser's and the
1880s lithographer's, and the scan behind it is the proof.
Every wildfire the federal occurrence
database records inside this county: 60 of them, burning about
173 acres. 0 started naturally and 2 were
recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five
miles of it.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Smoking
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The five largest, by the area the report
gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
20 April 2005
Debris and open burning
31 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
not named
21 February 2017
Debris and open burning
17 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
7095
30 March 2013
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
not named
3 April 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
15189
30 March 2005
Debris and open burning
10 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
not named
1 April 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
not named
1 April 2014
Equipment and vehicle use
10 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
not named
25 March 2014
Debris and open burning
7.0 acres
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
not named
Every settlement page carries the fires within five
miles of it - see the settlement index below.
Storms, 1962 to
2026
60 of 270 shown
The
NOAA Storm Events Database holds
270 reports for this county, causing 5 deaths,
15 injuries and about $2,890,000 in recorded property damage.
Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
Kind of event
Reports
Thunderstorm Wind
169
Hail
45
Flash Flood
41
Flood
8
Tornado
4
Funnel Cloud
2
Heavy Rain
1
The most serious of them, by death, then
injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the
forecast office filed them.
Numerous areas experienced flooding across Harrison, Carroll, and Tuscarawas county. One and half to three inches of rain occurred in parts of Eastern Ohio. ||Two individuals died in flooded cars near swollen creeks. According to a local newspaper: A womans body was found in her vehicle Saturday afternoon after it was washed off Route 800 north of Stillwater in Tuscarawas County and the body of 17-year-old Jack E. Roehrich, of Freeport, was found in his truck partially submerged in flood water near Skull Fork Road in Harrison County. Roehrich's truck was found near a bridge on Skull Fork Road in a ditch that leads to a larger nearby creek. Roehrich left home at approximately 7 p.m. Friday to look at flooding conditions in the eastern portion of the county. He reportedly contacted his parents at approximately 90 minutes later and said he was on his way home. Authorities said the water where the truck was found was approximately 11 feet deep. The water is believed to have been several feet deep on the roadway when Roehrich tried to drive through the area. ||According to the Ohio Highway Patrol, a female driver ignored the 'road closed' signs on Route 800 near Stillwater in Tuscarawas County on Saturday afternoon. The woman was swept away and killed by the strong current. She did have time to call 911 and relatives in distress.||A woman in Mechanicstown in Carroll County a woman had to be rescued from her home Friday when waters from the Yellow Creek rose to four feet deep inside her house.||Article: https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2020/03/23/two-ohio-motorists-drown-flooded-roads-over-weekend/2897005001/ .
More info: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2020/11/17/bodies-missing-michigan-hunters-found-clendening-lake-ohio/6322047002/||Two men, aged 43 and 60 and residents of south central Michigan, died when an overloaded watercraft, convective wind, and not being prepared for the environmental conditions all played a role in capsizing their boat. Most likely, based on available information, they were very low in the water and became swamped by high wave action. This resulted in them going into the water, and with no personal flotation devices, they succumbed to hyperthermia and drowned.
The path of the tornado began just west of the town of New Athens |where the damage was mainly to soft and hardwood trees. Several |trees were uprooted or snapped. The tornado then continued over |the hill toward the town of New Athens. Several large trees were |uprooted and roof damage was observed on both sides of route 9/Main |Street in town.| |The most notable damage occurred in town just off of Culbertson |Drive and McFarland Road. Several trees were snapped low on the trunks |and additional large trees were uprooted. A home on Culbertson lost several |large sections of roof, with pieces found in a field 1.4 miles away. Pieces |of the roof were also found embedded in the ground just east of the home. It was in this area where|the tornado's maximum wind of 115 to 120 MPH was observed. On McFarland, more tree damage was observed. A small shed outside of a garage was demolished, with only the cement pad remaining and a power pole was snapped at the base. ||The path continued down the hill from McFarland along route 519 where |additional power poles were snapped and numerous trees were snapped/uprooted. |Damage was then observed above the next hill on the south side of route 519 southeast |of Ridge Creek Lodge, where beyond a field a grove of hardwoods were snapped or uprooted.|Video footage from this vantage point notes that the tornado did lift a couple of times but |further tree damage was noted on the eastern side of Ross Run before the tornado dissipated.
County roads flooded between Bowerstown and Deersville. Water began to recede after 9 PM EDT and was expected to return to normal by midnight. The flash flood damaged roads (such as routes 8 and 39), culverts, camp sites, and boat docks around Tappan Lake. A bridge was washed out on Route 8.
An F2 tornado with maximum winds estimated at 120 MPH passed through a 3-mile section of rural Harrison County. The tornado passed over only one residence as it moved to the east but destroyed several items on the property, including a cinder-block garage, a wooden barn, and several outbuildings. A parked truck was lifted and turned about 90 degrees but was otherwise undamaged. There were several large sections of heavily wooded area along the tornado's path which were completely cleared of trees. No injuries or fatalities were reported.
Another round of torrential rains over already saturated ground created flash flooding across the county on the evening of the 28th, continuing through the 30th. Most of the problems in the county were confined to water covering roadways, with the western portion of the county near Freeport and Tippecanoe having the most problems. Several buildings received damage from the flood waters, most of them mobile homes. The county also sustained significant agricultural losses from standing flood water in fields.
State Route 151 closed northwest of Scio due to flooding. Standing water was observed over State Route 646 near Scio and Annapolis. High water was recorded going through a backyard off a nearby creek. State 164 closed north of Amsterdam due to flooding.
Emergency management reported widespread flash flooding in and around New Athens on State Route 9. 3 to 4 feet of water flowing across roads in spots with stranded vehicles.
Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in the towns of Scio and Jewett. In Scio, one tree landed on a house, causing minor damage. Two cars were damaged in Jewett by falling trees.
Emergency management reported large tree limbs down and wind gusts to 60 mph in Cadiz.
Mines and
quarries
4 recorded
The Survey's mineral resources record
lists 4 workings inside this county. 2 still
produce and 2 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement
page carries the workings within five miles of it.
Commodity
Workings
Clay
2
Limestone, General
1
Stone, Crushed/Broken
1
The least common of them first, because a
county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
Museum specimens collected inside this
county and catalogued with a date and a place: 210 of them, by
kingdom 139 animalia, 59 plantae, 12 fungi. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a
sighting. Held by CM, UMMZ, Ohio State University - Amphibian Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), USDA-ARS, Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) among others, and each settlement page carries
the specimens collected near it.
The oldest of them. A specimen proves
something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.
Historical Collections of Harrison County, in the State of Ohio, with Lists of the First Land-owners, Early Marriages (to 1841), Will Records (to 1861), Burial Records of the Early Settlements, and Numerous Genealogies devotes a chapter to each township:
its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the
schools and the churches. All 1 are reproduced here in full. Each row
shows the township's own shape and where it lies in the county, drawn from
the Census Bureau's boundary. Which settlements belong to which township
is computed from that same boundary, not taken from the book.
Everyone Historical Collections of Harrison County, in the State of Ohio, with Lists of the First Land-owners, Early Marriages (to 1841), Will Records (to 1861), Burial Records of the Early Settlements, and Numerous Genealogies stops to write about, with
the section that describes them. Among them are the men who founded the
place and governed the Territory. Each name opens the passage itself, in
the words of 1900.
Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names
Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages,
hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the watercourse or
landform it stands on and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 4
places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the
number of atlases and photographs held for them.
The complete index, with nothing left out.
Each of these is a separate record with its own page: a federal survey
report, or the case file that argued a property on to the National
Register. Both are public domain and reproduced word for word.
Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
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.