Ashley Corner, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45694. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1911 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
In the 1903 county history
4,336 words on this townshipThe county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Bloom Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Bloom Township - 4,336 words.
Fires nearby
92 since 1998The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Ashley Corner between 1998 and 2020, burning about 231 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8765 |
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15223 |
| 26 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 July 2019 | Fireworks | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15211 |
| 29 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15795 |
| 17 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15785 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 133 shownMuseums hold 133 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ashley Corner between 1898 and 1974: 108 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aschinger, H. (Henry), Braun, E. Lucy, C. Stein 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Polyporus semipileatus Peck | 1928 | Walter Phillips | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1928 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow |
![]() | Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854 | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1899 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Alternaria Nees | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | Wheelersburg |
All 133 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ashley Corner: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonclay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sciotoville Clay | Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium | Occurrence | 1861 | |
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gephart | 1.3 miles | 12 | |
| Scioto Furnace | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Fair Oaks | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Frederick | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Slocum | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Edmunds Switch | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Andre | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Lyra | 3.4 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.
| Wikidata item Q122595362 | 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 1075288. 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.























