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Pike County, Ohio

83 topographic sheets and 10 fire insurance atlases across 2 places.

Research this county

From the record

6 National Register listings published here · 21 businesses named in the fire insurance atlases from 1892 to 1921.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

Ohio within the United States
Pike County within Ohio
Explore by year 1892 1921

What the record shows

  • 2 places in this county were surveyed for fire insurance: Waverly, Piketon, between 1885 and 1932.
  • 10 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 878 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 6 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 4 buildings and 2 districts.
  • 6 of the 6 listings were added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 62 populated places in this county; 62 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
  • 1 public-domain county history, 1884, supplies 12,049 words of narrative reproduced here.

Photographs

2 photographs,

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.

Governor Lucas House, Piketon, Pike County, OH
Governor Lucas House, Piketon, Pike County, OH
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Jones House (Stone), State Highway 24, Jasper, Pike County, OH
Jones House (Stone), State Highway 24, Jasper, Pike County, OH
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Places on the National Register

6

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 PropertyType ListedReference
Eager Innbuilding197474001597
Friendly Grovebuilding197070000513
Jones-Cutler Housebuilding197676001509
Piketon Historic Districtdistrict197474001598
Vanmeter Stone House and Outbuildingsbuilding197575001519
Waverly Canal Historic Districtdistrict197878002182

The county from the air

27 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. The Survey holds 548 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 27 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), 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.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:24000
1960-04-22, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:24000
1960-04-22, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:24000
1960-04-22, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1960-04-22, scale 1:24000
1960-04-22, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-16, scale 1:99228
1971-04-16, scale 1:99228. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-16, scale 1:101580
1971-04-16, scale 1:101580. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-16, scale 1:101580
1971-04-16, scale 1:101580. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1974-05-01, scale 1:76000
1974-05-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1974-05-01, scale 1:76000
1974-05-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1994-06-16, scale 1:65000
1994-06-16, scale 1:65000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1994-06-16, scale 1:64000
1994-06-16, scale 1:64000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1956-05-18, scale 1:30000
1956-05-18, scale 1:30000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-04-20, scale 1:24000
1971-04-20, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1974-05-01, scale 1:76000
1974-05-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1974-05-01, scale 1:76000
1974-05-01, scale 1:76000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1975-04-06, scale 1:78000
1975-04-06, scale 1:78000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1979-11-01, scale 1:80000
1979-11-01, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1994-06-16, scale 1:64000
1994-06-16, scale 1:64000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

6 stations, 4 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

The 1950 census, district by district

19 districts

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.

  • 66-1Beaver village, comprising parts of Beaver and Marion townships: Beaver village - That part in Beaver township
  • 66-2Beaver village - That part in Marion township
  • 66-3Beaver township - That part outside Beaver village (Remainder of Beaver township is in Beaver village)
  • 66-4Benton township
  • 66-5Camp Creek township
  • 66-6Jackson township
  • 66-7Marion township - That part outside Beaver village (Remainder of Marion township is in Beaver village)
  • 66-8Mifflin township
  • 66-9Newton township
  • 66-10Pebble township
  • 66-11Pee Pee township: Waverly village: Waverly village - That part north and west of U. S. Hwy. 23
  • 66-12Waverly village - That part south and east of U. S. Hwy. 23
  • 66-13Pee Pee township - That part outside Waverly village
  • 66-14Perry township
  • 66-15Scioto township
  • 66-16Seal township: Piketon village
  • 66-17Seal township - That part outside Piketon village
  • 66-18Sunfish township
  • 66-19Union township

Businesses named in the atlases

21 businesses

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. 2 of these 21 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.

Wildfire, 2003 to 2020

369 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 369 of them, burning about 1,220 acres. 1 started naturally and 11 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning205
Missing data/not specified/undetermined103
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 March 2009Smoking100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 February 2020Smoking50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15405
12 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Debris and open burning40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15912
7 November 2020Debris and open burning37 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15913
7 April 2013Arson/incendiarism30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2009Debris and open burning30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1956 to 2025

60 of 272 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 272 reports for this county, causing 2 deaths, 16 injuries and about $4,292,500 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind158
Hail36
Flood33
Flash Flood29
Tornado15
Lightning1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Flash FloodCountywide1 killed, $1,500,000no account filed
February 2019FloodIdaho1 killed, $5,000The body of a man was found near his vehicle on Ohio Route 124, near the intersection of Ohio Route 772. The vehicle was found almost 700 feet inside signs placed in the roadway marking the road closed. Water inside the vehicle indicated that is had been at least half submerged in water. M58VE.
April 1965Tornado (F2)not stated9 hurt, $250,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBuchanan5 hurt, $100,000The National Weather Service confirmed straight-line wind damage off of State Route 772 in Buchanan. Three mobile homes were knocked off their foundation, picked up, lifted 20 yards, and were completely destroyed. The roof of one mobile home was carried approximately 50 yards in the same direction. Two additional mobile homes remained on their foundation and sustained minor damage. Approximately five trees were also uprooted. Damage in this case was determined to be straight-line because there were indications that all of the structures were blown consistently to the southeast. The mobile homes were subject to high winds because they were located at the summit of a hill in an open field. This allowed severe thunderstorm winds to lift the mobile homes off their foundations. Five people in mobile homes were injured when their mobile homes were knocked off of their foundations. The five people were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
September 1978Tornado (F1)not stated2 hurt, $25,000no account filed
July 2003Flash FloodPiketon$700,000Several homes were flooded along State Route 32 with two people evacuated in Jackson Township. Numerous roads were flooded and closed across the southern part of the county.
June 2022Tornado (EF1)Byington$250,000The tornado initially touched down south of the Latham area along Dry Bone Road, State Route 124, and Grassy Fork Road. A path of enhanced tree damage from west of Dry Bone Road to east of Grassy Fork Road was indicative of a weak tornado. This corridor of damage was embedded within a much larger field of wind damage that affected large swaths of Pike County in general.||The more concentrated corridor of damage had a convergent nature to the felled trees, rather defined lateral bounds, and episodes of debris thrown upwind. Most notably, a garage that was heavily damaged on Grassy Fork Road had some of its debris thrown upwind of the storm motion. Several corridors of extensive tree damage between Grassy Fork Road and State Route 124 had a clear convergent pattern in the felled trees. Damage in these areas was consistent with wind speeds of around 90 mph. The tornado likely lifted in the hills east of Grassy Fork Road but the line of storms and significant storm outflow continued to produce widespread straight line wind damage in excess of 70 mph across much of Pike County, including some localized areas possibly approaching 80 mph.
September 2024FloodPiketon$100,000The Lake White high pool flooded nearby homes and roads when the flood gate could not be opened due to a power outage.
October 2006Flash FloodWaverly$100,000A bridge was damaged along State Route 551. Several docks were heavily damaged at Lake White and some evacuations took place. Several roads in and around Waverly were closed.
June 2019Tornado (EF1)Givens$75,000The tornado first touched down on the south side of Beaver Pike just east of Bumgardner Road, knocking down a few trees.||More extensive damage was observed along Straight Creek Road just north of Beaver Pike, in a valley area between two southwest-to-northeast ridges. At one property, several trees were downed on top of vehicles, leaving the vehicles heavily damaged. Slightly further north, structural damage was observed at two properties. One house had several shingles removed from the southwest-facing segment of the roof, while also having siding removed from the northeast-facing wall. A barn at an adjacent property was collapsed and moved eastward from its original position, and sheet|metal from the barn was found up the hill across the road to the northeast. Tree damage in this area was significant, especially along the floor of the valley, where many trees were uprooted.||The tornado appears to have briefly turned to the east as it crossed the next hill, before shifting to the northeast again and causing additional damage on Carrs Run Road. One outbuilding suffered a partial wall failure, along with the removal of some sheet metal roofing. Tree damage on this road was not as significant as on Straight Creek Road, but was still noteworthy. At a property on the east side of Carrs Run Road, one very large tree was downed from north to south across a garage roof, essentially slicing the roof into two segments.||The tornado caused tree damage Ervin Hill Buckhollow Roads before it lifted.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSargents$75,000Major damage occurred to the Grandview Buildings and Supply near Piketon.
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.
June 2019Tornado (EF1)Poplar Grove$50,000The tornado first touched down near Edwin Shoemaker Road and Tener Road in far northeastern Adams County and moved northeast into Pike County.||The most significant damage from this tornado occurred along Humphrey Road and Hackleshin Road in an area known as Humphrey Hollow. Tree damage in this area was extensive, especially on the steep hillsides surrounding the hollow. On one northwest-facing hillside around a bend on Humphrey Road, nearly every tree was uprooted down the hill. A few snapped trees were also noted in this area. There was strong evidence that the most significant damage occurred on the slopes facing downward along the direction of the wind; including generally east-facing slopes on the south side of the tornadic circulation, and west-facing slopes on the north side of the circulation. While structural damage in this area was mainly limited to impact damage from trees, some minor siding and roofing damage was noted at a few properties.||After leaving Humphrey Hollow, the tornado continued northeast across another inaccessible area, before causing similar tree damage along Grassy Fork Road and Fields Hollow Road in Fields Hollow.||Minor tree damage was observed along Sunfish Creek and State Route 124 east of Latham, with no evidence of damage reaching very far to the north of State Route 124.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGermany$50,000Several houses sustained roof damage. Numerous trees were downed and several barns were destroyed. A school bus was heavily damaged by flying debris.
November 1993Tornado (F0)Route 776 1 W of$50,000A small tornado touched down along Route 776 and moved east. Several homes and a barn were damaged and trees were downed. Most of the damage was not severe.
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Waverly$30,000A weak tornado briefly touched down, initially near Denver Road to the south of Left Fork Crooked Creek. Tornado damage consisted of primarily hardwood and softwood trees that were both snapped off above ground and uprooted. In addition, some structural damage was noted, including complete destruction of three outbuildings, and partial roof removal from a residential home. One additional home suffered minor structural damage to one side.||Damage showed a distinctively convergent pattern in the immediate vicinity of Left Fork Crooked Creek, particularly in several stands of trees. In this area, tree damage was extensive and significant.
March 2012Tornado (EF0)Camp$25,000The tornado touched down on the south side of Wynn Road and then followed the road. The tornado eventually crossed the road and lifted near Highway 104 southwest of Piketon. The damage from this tornado consisted of numerous large trees snapped off, uprooted, and lying in a convergent pattern toward the center of the most enhanced core of tree damage. One large tree landed on a mobile home, causing heavy structural damage. An eyewitness observed the tornado which corroborates the damage path. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum estimated wind speed of this tornado was 75 miles per hour.
March 2012Tornado (EF0)Ladd$25,000The tornado touched down near Highway 772 and Left Fork Road in extreme northwest Scioto County at 1746 EST, and traveled almost .2 miles before crossing into Pike County at 1747 EST. The path width of the tornado while in Scioto County was around 100 yards. The tornado progressed east northeast along and to the north of Camp Creek Road for nearly 4 miles in Pike County, before lifting at 1750 EST. While on the ground in Pike County, the path width of the tornado expanded to around 200 yards. Damage along the path of the tornado was primarily to trees, with numerous trees snapped and uprooted. A mobile home on Camp Creek Road was damaged with portions of the roof removed, causing an exterior wall to collapse. The resident of that home reported seeing a tornado on the ground approaching the home. Due to heavily forested terrain in this area, the path length and width are approximated as best as possible from accessible roads. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum estimated wind speed of this tornado was 80 miles per hour in both Scioto and Pike Counties.
April 2007Tornado (EF0)Omega$25,000A tornado touched down briefly just southwest of the town of Omega. Two barns had portions of their roofs lifted off. The garage doors to both barns were collapsed inward. Two softwood trees were snapped at their bases near the barns. This tornado was rated EF-0.
March 1956Tornado (F2)not stated$25,000no account filed
September 2022Flash FloodCamp$20,000Camp Creek was out of its banks. Water was flowing across Camp Creek Road and entered a residence.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWaverly$20,000Numerous trees were downed in the Waverly area.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPiketon$20,000Numerous trees were downed in the Piketon area.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBuchanan$20,000Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and the roof of a structure west of Waverly.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaver$20,000Two large trees were snapped and one tree was uprooted due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Two trees fell onto two different mobile homes due to the winds.
May 2011Flash FloodWaverly$20,000Numerous roads were closed and a trailer park was flooded due to heavy rainfall.
August 1996LightningWaverly$20,000no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindElm Grove$15,000A tree fell on the roof of a house along State Route 772, causing part of the roof and ceiling structure to cave in.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWaverly$15,000A stone chimney was knocked down. Trees were downed along River and Watson Roads.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLatham$15,000A trailer was overturned and numerous trees were knocked down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$10,000Numerous trees were downed across western Pike County.
February 2022FloodIdaho$10,000Portions of State Route 124 were closed due to high water. A water rescue was needed for a stranded driver.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIdaho$10,000A roof was blown off of a trailer.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWaverly$10,000Several trees and power lines were downed in the village of Waverly.
April 2014Flash FloodStockdale$10,000High water due to heavy rain was running along Germany Road near the Scioto County line and pushed a car off the roadway. The driver was not injured.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindMorgantown$10,000Numerous trees were downed in the western part of Pike County due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindIdaho$10,000Numerous trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindPiketon$10,000A house trailer that was being towed was blown over due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindPiketon$10,000Numerous trees were down and outbuildings were blown over due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWaverly$10,000Trees were reported down with one tree on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Metal roofing was also peeled off of a home due to the thunderstorm winds.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Piketon$10,000A tornado touched down at the Pike County Fairgrounds where a storage shed was destroyed. Metal debris was strewn about the property. Another building on the property sustained roof damage. The maximum wind speed based on damage is around 80 miles per hour.
August 2003Flash FloodLatham$10,000A bridge along State Route 124 was washed out.
February 2000Flash FloodCountywide$10,000Heavy rainfall caused roads to be flooded across the county.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000Numerous trees knocked down across the county.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000Trees downed in several locations across the county.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCountywide$10,000Numerous trees downed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGlen Jean$8,000Several trees and power poles were knocked down.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPiketon$6,000Several trees and power lines were downed near Lake White.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCountywide$6,000Numerous trees were knocked down, especially east of US Route 23.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$5,000Several trees were downed.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindPiketon$5,000Several trees were downed outside of Waverly along State Route 104.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGregg$5,000A tree was downed along Carrs Run Road. Some power lines were also downed in the area.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindOmega$5,000A few trees and power lines were downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDuke$5,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindGivens$5,000Several trees were downed across the county, including on Carrs Run Road, Harris Road, Wakefield Mound Road and Coal Dock Road.
July 2016Flash FloodGermany$5,000Part of Montgomery Road was washed out near Dutch Run.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindSargents$5,000Trees were downed on power lines on Shyville Road due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWaverly$5,000Trees and multiple large branches were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Some of the trees fell on power lines.
July 2009Tornado (EF1)Sargents$5,000Damage indicates that the tornado touched down briefly in two locations. The initial touch down occurred near Loop Road where an estimated 15 trees were uprooted and knocked down. The tornado then briefly lifted before touching down again in a cemetery off of Bailey Chapel Road. There, it uprooted and knocked down approximately 10 more trees, and lifted a nearby trampoline over a fence.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindPiketon$5,000Trees were knocked down across the western part of the county.

Mines and quarries

11 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 11 workings inside this county. 6 still produce and 5 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction7
Stone, Crushed/Broken3
Limestone, General1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rogers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Limerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Limerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rogers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
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
Cutlip Plant Dredge & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
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

Collected here, 1889 to 1975

8 of 2,335 shown

Museum specimens collected in and around this county - inside the rectangle that bounds it - and catalogued with a date and a place: 2,335 of them, by kingdom 1,917 animalia, 272 plantae, 141 fungi, 3 protozoa, 2 unrecorded. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by Ohio State University - Fish Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM), UMMZ, NY, CINC, Ohio State University - Amphibian 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 YearSpecies KingdomWhere CollectorCatalogue
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimen1889Asterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.PlantaeWaverlyC. J. HerrickNY 267253
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimen1889Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898AnimaliaWaverly, Ohio, USAnot recordedOhio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 4881
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimen1894Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 1855AnimaliaScioto Creek, Coopersville, New YorkBean & B. EvermannUSNM USNM 70055
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimen1894Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818AnimaliaCooperville; Scioto CrB. W. EvermannFMNH 1979
Specimen of Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.FungiColumbusF.L. StevensILL ILL00054121
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimen1898Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)AnimaliaWaverly, Ohio, USAnot recordedOhio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 4393
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimen1898Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)AnimaliaWaverly, Ohio, USAnot recordedOhio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 4545
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimen1898Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)AnimaliaWaverly, Ohio, USAHenninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM) OSUM Birds B 5085

The townships, in 1927

12,049 words

History of the Newton Families of Colonial America, with American History of Family Interest Not Obtainable Elsewhere devotes a chapter to each township: its boundaries and streams, who settled it and when, the mills, the schools and the churches. The one chapter is 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 TownshipSettlements in it LengthSections
Scioto TownshipCoopersville, Sargents, Shyville, Wakefield, Wetmore12,049 words18

Every populated place in the county

62

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 nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 2 places that were also surveyed for fire insurance come first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

The vanished settlements of Pike County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Recorded here

Waverly, Ohio

13 topographic sheets and 6 fire insurance atlases, 1885 to 1932

Piketon, Ohio

15 topographic sheets and 4 fire insurance atlases, 1896 to 1921

Everything this county holds

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.

Surveyed structures

30 structures

Nomination case files

4 case files

The vanished settlements of Pike County, the places these records name that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • 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.
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