100 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases across 1 place.
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5 National Register listings · 11 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1896 to 1917 · the 1880 county history tells 0 stories and names 1 people · people the book names include Allen Alexander (Morgan Township, 1904) (machine-read).
Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service
Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.
| Photograph | Property | Type | Listed | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Adams Covered Bridge | structure | 1999 | 99000093 |
 | Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge | structure | 1999 | 99000097 |
| Big Bottom Massacre Site | site | 1970 | 70000512 | |
 | Helmick Mill Covered Bridge | structure | 1999 | 99000098 |
| Rock Hollow School | building | 1983 | 83002014 |
Morgan County holds 3 covered bridges on the National Register, more than any other property type here. Each is a listed structure with a federal nomination on file.
| Adams Covered Bridge | Listed 1999, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
| Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge | Listed 1999, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
| Helmick Mill Covered Bridge | Listed 1999, 0 map sheets show this crossing |
Sampled issues, machine-read from the Library of Congress scan and published page by page, so every headline and column is searchable text.
McConnelsville, Ohio, 1871 to 1871. Machine-read from the Library of Congress scan.
McConnelsville, Ohio, 1886 to 1943. 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.
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. 318 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.
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.
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.
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 11 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: 116 of them, burning about 234 acres. 1 started naturally and 0 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 66 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4728 |
| 22 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 702 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 711 |
| 14 March 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15015 |
| 28 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15148 |
| 28 October 2014 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 October 2016 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5929 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11387 |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 201 reports for this county, causing 2 deaths, 0 injuries and about $2,053,250 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 125 |
| Hail | 35 |
| Flood | 22 |
| Flash Flood | 16 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 |
| Tornado | 1 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Flood | Bishopville | 2 killed, $15,000 | Roads were flooded, but damage to dwellings was minimal. Two brothers from Athens County died while on a fishing trip. Their flooded vehicle was found along the East Branch of Sunday Creek above Burr Oak Reservoir. Apparently, they drove into the high water at night, during the early morning hours on the 3rd. One body was found inside the vehicle. The second body was not found until the next morning, about a mile downstream. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deavertown | $500,000 | Several trees and large branches down in scattered locations about the county. Nearly 6,000 customers lost electricity. The public infrastructure damage assessment was around $58,000. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $400,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $400,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockport | $75,000 | Several trees were snapped or uprooted. A few trees damaged homes. |
| September 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Rose Farm | $60,000 | The tornado that touch downed in eastern Perry County continued into western Morgan County, before dissipating. There were several downed trees and large branches along McKinley Street. Three houses had minor damage and one vehicle was destroyed. Electricity was out for over 24 hours.||Since 1950, this is the first confirmed tornado in Morgan County. However, prior to 1950, one tornado was reported in Morgan County back in June of 1928. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Mc Connelsville | $50,000 | Rains of 2 to 5 inches fell in less than 5 hours. The cooperative observer at McConnelsville had a 24 hour total of 5 inches. About 4.5 inches of the total fell in just over 2 hours, with the 5 inch total occurring in a 4 to 5 hour period. This produced flooding on many county roads and State Route 60. Water was 4 to 5 feet over some of the roads. Three homes were threatened by rising water, but no evacuations were required. The county emergency manager director reported only minor damage from this downpour. A few basements were flooded. Some county and township roads received minor damage. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | not stated | $50,000 | Numerous trees downed at a number of locations including McConnellsville and Pennsville. |
| November 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockport | $50,000 | A barn and several other out-buildings were damaged. A number of trees were downed. A downburst is believed to have occurred with winds to 70 MPH (61 kts). |
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $50,000 | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Flood | Malta | $25,000 | On the afternoon of the 20th, the Muskingum River at McConnelsville rose above its 11 foot flood stage. The river crested just below 12 feet early on the morning of the 21st, but did not return below flood stage until the morning of the 22nd. Most of the primary roads were flooded in between McConnelsville and Zanesville while the river was above flood stage, as well as a few homes that reside near the river. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $20,000 | Trees fell around town including on Routes 78 and 376. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $20,000 | Several trees or branches down around the community. |
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Morgansville | $15,000 | Headwaters of the West Branch flooded many secondary roads. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malta | $15,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Flood | Durant | $10,000 | The Muskingum River gauge at McConnelsville rose above its flood stage on the afternoon of April 2nd. The river eventually crested to around 13 feet the next morning, and then returned below flood stage the morning of the 4th. Several homes and businesses in the McConnelsville observed minor flooding during this time, in addition to high water issues that arose on State Route 376 and Route 669. |
| February 2022 | Flood | Mc Connelsville | $10,000 | During the early morning hours of February 18th, the Muskingum River in McConnelsville rose out of its 11 foot flood stage. The river crested at 12.66 feet late that morning and did not return to its banks until the afternoon of February 19th. While out of its banks, much of the town of McConnelsville was flooded as well as State Route 376 and State Route 669. Many homes in the town observed flooding in their yards. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Chesterhill | $10,000 | A portion of County Route 80 was washed out. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Durant | $10,000 | The Muskingum River flooded near McConnelsville, causing high water along Routes 60 and 669. The neighborhood along Cottonwood Drive also experienced some minor flooding.||The river gage on the Muskingum at McConnelsville showed the river rose above its 11 foot flood stage late on the 7th. It crested at 11.5 feet just after midnight on the 8th, and returned to its banks mid morning. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Triadelphia | $10,000 | An automatic gauge near McConnelsville reported 2.2 inches of rain in 2 to 3 hours between 1800 and 2100E. Another .5 inches of rain fell between 2200E and 2300E. Rain estimates of over 3 inches fell around Joetown. ||Small streams flooded roads. One example was in the Millers Run basin, where County Route 56 was flooded. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Deavertown | $10,000 | Numerous roads were flooded, mainly over the headwaters of Wolf Creek. One example was along Buck Run. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $10,000 | Trees and large branches fell onto power lines. |
| January 1998 | Flash Flood | Countywide | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rosseau | $7,000 | Over wet terrain, rains estimated at 2 to 3 inches fell in a few separate rounds of convection from the McConnelsville vicinity on north and east in Morgan County. Small streams flooded roads. For example, Four Mile Run flooded in Meigsville Township. In Bristol Township, County Route 62 called Mummey Road was flooded. In the Meigs Creek basin, portions of County Route 11 were flooded. Bell Creek flooded yards around McConnelsville. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Joetown | $6,000 | High water closed sections of State Routes 78, 376, and 669 around McConnelsville. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malta | $5,000 | A tree fell on a vehicle in Malta Hill. |
| February 2022 | Flood | Malta | $5,000 | The Muskingum River in McConnelsville rose out of its 11 foot flood stage on the evening of February 22nd. Just after midnight on the 23rd, the river crested at 11.59 feet and returned to its banks just before noon that morning. Several roads observed high water spilling from the river, including Route 669 near Malta and down into McConnelsville. Several homes near the river also observed minor flooding. |
| January 2018 | Flood | Mc Connelsville | $5,000 | County Road 2 had high water in spots. Water also backed up into the Hanwood and Cottonwood Drive areas, where several homes were impacted. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Bishopville | $5,000 | Rains of 2 to 3 inches fell in an hour. Hyde Fork flooded portions of Route 329. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Bishopville | $5,000 | Small streams, such as Aldridge Run, flooded roads. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Deavertown | $5,000 | On the hilltop along Route 555 damage occurred to some outbuildings. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chesterhill | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide | $5,000 | Scattered locations, mainly over the northern portion, had trees or large branches blown down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgansville | $5,000 | Numerous trees were blown down and roads were blocked. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | McConnellsville | $5,000 | Trees were downed. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | McConnelsville | $5,000 | Trees were downed near State Route 669. |
| September 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | McConnelsville | $5,000 | Trees were downed. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Deavertown | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stockport | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neelysville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McConnellsville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville Arpt | $4,000 | Power lines and a tree were downed along Bailey Ridge Road and at the intersection of County Road 2 and South River Road. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Eagleport | $4,000 | Route 60 flooded near McConnelsville as the Muskingum River rose out of its banks. Also impacted were Route 669 near Malta and the cemetary on the southwest side of McConnelsville.||The river gage on at McConnelsville showed the river rose above its 11 foot flood stage during the afternoon of the 12th. It crested just above 12 feet late that night before returning to its banks the evening of the 13th. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Morgansville | $4,000 | Minor yard and garage flooding occurred at a home along East Main Street in McConnelsville. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down along Route 60 in Malta. |
| May 2020 | Flood | Chesterhill | $3,000 | State Road 377 near the town of Plantsville was closed in both directions due to flooding. Other county roads that were temporarily closed due to flooding included County Road 56 near Malta and County Road 39 in Westland. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagleport | $3,000 | Numerous large tree branches were snapped and blown down onto State Route 60 between Rokeby Lock and Gaysport. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $3,000 | Outside of McConnelsville, a tree was downed along State Route 376 North, taking down power lines with it. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chesterhill | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennsville | $2,000 | Two trees were downed near Pennsville, one onto State Route 266 and the other onto Roy Gins Road. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bishopville | $2,000 | Several large branches were blown onto the roadway near the town of Glouster, blocking traffic from flowing. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neelysville | $2,000 | In the town of Neelysville, several trees were blown down. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxbury | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down along State Route 676. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Connelsville | $2,000 | Several trees were downed along State Route 376. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pennsville | $2,000 | Multiple trees were blown down along County Roads 39, 40 and 53. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elliott Xrds | $2,000 | Falling trees brought down power lines along Wood Road. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elliott Xrds | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were downed along Van Fossen Lane. |
The Survey's mineral resources record lists 8 workings inside this county. 4 still produce and 4 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.
| Commodity | Workings |
|---|---|
| Stone, Crushed/Broken | 3 |
| Limestone, General | 2 |
| Sand and Gravel, Construction | 2 |
| Stone | 1 |
The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan County Hwy Dept. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Chesterhill Stone Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| D-K Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Industrial Stone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Number 2 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| D-K Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Industrial Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Ohio Power Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Museum specimens collected inside this county and catalogued with a date and a place: 703 of them, by kingdom 575 animalia, 117 plantae, 10 fungi, 1 unrecorded. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), CM, Ohio State University - Amphibian Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), YPM, KU, 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.
| Photograph | Year | Species | Kingdom | Where | Collector | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1887 | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | Fungi | not stated | Morgan | NY 00937383 |
 | 1888 | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | Animalia | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | USNM USNM 41020 |
.jpg) | 1888 | Crystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 2008 | Animalia | Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township | Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.) | Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM 8996 |
 | 1888 | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | Animalia | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | USNM USNM 41034 |
 | 1888 | Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856) | Animalia | Beverly, Ohio | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | USNM USNM 41019 |
 | 1888 | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | Animalia | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | USNM USNM 41027 |
 | 1888 | Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853) | Animalia | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | USNM USNM 41028 |
| 1896 | Leskea obscura Hedw. | Plantae | not stated | W. A. Kellerman | NY 489355 |
Census 1880 Morgan County Ohio devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. All 10 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.
| Shape and position in the county | Township | Settlements in it | Length | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom Township | Durant, Eagleport, Rokeby Lock | 225 words | 1 | |
| Deerfield Township | Halls Valley, Triadelphia | 474 words | 3 | |
| Malta Township | Chaneyville, Joetown, Lovell, Malta | 312 words | 2 | |
| Manchester Township | Otho, Reinersville, Seeleyburg | 120 words | 0 | |
| Marion Township | Chesterhill, Plantsville, Todds | 64 words | 0 | |
| Meigsville Township | Mill Grove, Neelysville, Unionville | 77 words | 0 | |
| Morgan Township | McConnelsville | 10,819 words | 46 | |
| Penn Township | Pennsville, Westland | 96 words | 0 | |
| Union Township | Morganville, Ringgold, Rosseau, Shilling | 237 words | 3 | |
| Windsor Township | Brokaw, Chadwick, Hooksburg, Roxbury, Stockport | 110 words | 1 |
Everyone Census 1880 Morgan County Ohio 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 1880.
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 1 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.
Bristol township · 43756 · McConnelsville quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Bristol township · 43756 · Reinersville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Bristol township · 43756 · Reinersville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Center township · 45715 · On Limestone Run · Caldwell South quadrangle
13 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Windsor township · 43787 · Stockport quadrangle
12 sheets, 1910 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Malta township · 43758 · On Chaneyville Run · Ringgold quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Bristol township · 43756 · McConnelsville quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Bloom township · 43756 · In Opossum Hollow · Rokeby Lock quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Deerfield township · 43758 · On Kickapoo Creek · Rokeby Lock quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Homer township · 45732 · On Smith Run · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
No longer a settlement
Homer township · 45732 · Jacksonville quadrangle
19 sheets, 1903 to 2002
No longer a settlement
Malta township · 43758 · On Slemmons Creek · McConnelsville quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Morgan township · 43756 · On McConnells Island · McConnelsville quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Meigsville township · 43756 · On Meigs Creek · Beverly quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Union township · 43758 · On Hedgehog Creek · Rokeby Lock quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Center township · 45715 · On Little Olive Green Creek · Beverly quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Meigsville township · 43756 · On Little Fourmile Run · McConnelsville quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Manchester township · 43756 · On Horse Run · Reinersville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Bristol township · 43756 · McConnelsville quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Manchester township · 43724 · On Sugartree Run · Reinersville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Union township · 43758 · Ringgold quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
No longer a settlement
Windsor township · 43787 · On Bald Eagle Run · Stockport quadrangle
12 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Deerfield township · 43758 · On South Branch Island Run · Rokeby Lock quadrangle
13 sheets, 1910 to 1994
Meigsville township · 43756 · On Dyes Fork · Reinersville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1909 to 1994
Homer township · 45711 · In Anderson Hollow · Amesville quadrangle
14 sheets, 1904 to 2002
13 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1896 to 1940
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.
The vanished settlements of Morgan County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.
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