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

Beaumont, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45780. It stands on Coal Run. The Survey maps it on the Nelsonville quadrangle.

Beaumont within Athens County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beaumont, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Beaumont, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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.

Fires nearby

61 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Beaumont between 2003 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	2
Fireworks	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
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BYERS RD
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BEAN HOLLOW
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	RAW FIRE
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	MONK RD FIRE
9 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BIG BAILEY
26 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	RV FIRE 295

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,270 shown

Museums hold 1,270 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beaumont between 1896 and 1975: 1,068 Animalia, 144 Plantae, 48 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813	1896	F. L. Stevens	Athens County
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.	1896	Selby, A.D.	Caananville
Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta	1902	Morse, M. (Max)	Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens
Erasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)	1905	not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)	1905	H.T. Osborn

All 1,270 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beaumont: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Plant 2 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
	Gravel Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Athens County

Storms nearby

3 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Beaumont in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
November 2017	Flood	Beaumont	-	Many roads remained closed into the early afternoon due to high water following flash flooding earlier in the morning. This included sections of State Routes 144, 329 and 550.
July 2017	Hail	Beaumont	-	The hail lasted for about 5 minutes.
April 2016	Hail	Beaumont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Chauncey	1.0 miles	21
The Plains	1.2 miles	18
Hamley Run	1.8 miles	21
Liars Corner	2.0 miles	19
Morristown	2.2 miles	19
Poston	2.8 miles	19
Glen Ebon	3.1 miles	21
Brookville	3.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075332. 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.