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

Alexandria, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45663. It stands on Careys Run. The Survey maps it on the Friendship quadrangle.

Alexandria 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 Alexandria, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Alexandria, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the county-history sources

7,533 words on this township

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Though not organized until 1814, Wellington was one of the first townships settled. Alexandria was one of the first three settlements in the county and among the first along the Ohio. There is only a few months between the settlements at the mouth of the Little Scioto, the French Grant settlement and this one.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

The tract upon which Alexandria was platted was Survey Number 508, containing six hundred acres, located by Alexander Parker for his brother, Col. Thomas Parker, of Frederick County, Virginia, August 3, 1787. The survey was made by John O'Bannon, Deputy Surveyor, John Williams and Sylvester Murroney, Chainmen; Thomas Parker, Marker. It is said that a part of the land on which Alexandria was laid out had been partly cleared and cultivated in corn by the Indians. The site seems to have been chosen for a town some time before the town was platted and named Alexandria for Alexandria, Va. Benjamin Feurt said that when his father landed there it was called Alexandria. Just when the lots were surveyed and sold is somewhat uncertain. All we find of record on that point is in the following:

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

We find on the same plat the following: "I do hereby certify that the plan contains the in and out lots in the town of Alexandria, which I sold as such, for Col. Thomas Parker, of Frederick County, Virginia, situated in the County of Adams in the Territory northwest of the Ohio. - A. Parker."

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

118 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Alexandria between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,152 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Arson/incendiarism	18
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9147
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	PORTSMOUTH
14 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHEEP HOLL
1 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CHURCH STR
7 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8166
6 May 2014	Debris and open burning	146 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FLATT HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,356 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,356 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alexandria between 1884 and 1975: 1,196 Animalia, 98 Plantae, 53 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Braun, Anson A. Hinkley 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1884	H. Mores	Scioto River
Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829	1896	not recorded	Scioto River
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Alum Rock
Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819	1885	Ch. R. Orcutt	Scioto River
Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.	1889	Craig M.	Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
Sympetrum Newman, 1833	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 1,356 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Alexandria: 1 plant, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Own Crews Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Portsmouth Works	Clay	Plant
South Shore Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shannoah Town (historical)	0.1 miles	14
Sugar Grove	1.1 miles	14
Stockham	1.6 miles	14
Dennis	2.0 miles	14
West Portsmouth	2.5 miles	13
Portsmouth	2.7 miles	15
Friendship	3.0 miles	14
Valley View	3.7 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Alexandria	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22341297	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049382. 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.