Arion, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45652. It stands on Wrights Run. The Survey maps it on the West Portsmouth quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1991The 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 sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,621 words on this townshipHistory of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Union Township was one of the four original townships laid out at the house of Judge John Collins in Alexandria on August 9, 1803. It. was then the second largest township in the county and included all that territory now belonging to the following townships; Brush Creek, Rarden, Union, Wayne and Clay, and portions of Morgan, Nile, Jefferson, Valley, Madison, Harrison and Porter. Its boundary was as follows: - Beginning at the mouth of Feurt's, now Carey's Run, thence up the Ohio river to the mouth of the Little Scioto; thence up said river to old Mr. Monroe's; thence west to the twelve mile tree on the Big Scioto; thence in a westerly direction to strike the dividing ridge between Brush Creek and Bear Creek; thence including all the water of Brush Creek to the county line; thence south with said county line to the dividing ridge between the Ohio river and Brush Creek; thence with said ridge to the head of Carey's Run; thence down the said Run to the Ohio river.
Passage source: History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio, published 1903.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
49 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Arion between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,405 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 August 2002 | Natural | 60 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR LUMBER |
| 2 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 23 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12405 |
| 9 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,612 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,612 specimens collected within 10 miles of Arion between 1884 and 1975: 1,385 Animalia, 142 Fungi, 76 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Braun, A.P. Morgan 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1884 | H. Mores | Scioto River |
![]() | Bovistella Morgan | 1885 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan | 1893 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819 | 1885 | Ch. R. Orcutt | Scioto River |
![]() | Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc. | 1887 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm. | 1889 | Craig M. | Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River |
![]() | Myelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale | 1893 | Jones, T.H.B | Otway |
![]() | Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 1855 | 1894 | Bean & B. Evermann | Scioto Creek, Coopersville, New York |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1894 | B. W. Evermann | Cooperville; Scioto Cr |
![]() | Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829 | 1896 | not recorded | Scioto River |
| unnamed | 1897 | Morgan | Preston | |
![]() | Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | Alum Rock |
All 1,612 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Arion: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Waller Brothers Stone Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Taylor Stone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Waller Bros Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Waller Bros Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Waller Bros Quarry | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Waller Brothers Stone Company | Flagstone | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arion in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arion | $2,000 | A few trees were knocked down along Arion Road. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arion | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down along Wright Run Road near Arion Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McDermott | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Lombardsville | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Henley | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Crabtree | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Owensville | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Rushtown | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Otway | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lucasville | 6.1 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1037471. 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.























