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Badgertown, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1962. It stands in Goshen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43719. The Survey maps it on the Bethesda quadrangle.

Badgertown within Belmont County

Then and now

1903 to 1962

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Badgertown, surveyed 1962
Topographic sheet of Badgertown, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1903 county history

5,147 words on this township

The 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 Goshen Township covers capture of lewis wetzel and his brother, the first settlements, spinning in the olden time, early settlers, township officials and population, goshen township in the civil war.

Read the chapter on Goshen Township - 5,147 words.

Fires nearby

6 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Badgertown between 2002 and 2014, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 197 shown

Museums hold 197 specimens collected within 10 miles of Badgertown between 1877 and 1975: 159 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Specimen of Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1971Cusick, A.W.disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
A photograph of the species Hamamelis virginiana, not of this specimenHamamelis virginiana L.1877Guttenberg, G.St. Clairsville Rd
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1884Jones, J. (Jesse)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hylocichla mustelina, not of this specimenHylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Quiscalus quiscula, not of this specimenQuiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 18191885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Turdus migratorius, not of this specimenTurdus migratorius Linnaeus, 17661885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J.Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica Linnaeus, 17581891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)2 miles south-east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melanerpes erythrocephalus, not of this specimenMelanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)1/2 mile east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 197 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Bethesda1.1 miles12
Belmont2.3 miles12
Morristown2.3 miles12
Speidel2.5 miles12
Olivett3.0 miles13
Loomis3.9 miles12
Tacoma4.1 miles13
Egypt4.5 miles13

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 BadgertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133506The 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 1064370. 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.