Beavertown, Ohio
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Grandview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It stands on Jollys Run. The Survey maps it on the Bens Run quadrangle.
Then and now
1906 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1906 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1906 USGS Saint Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Saint Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bens Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bens Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bens Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Bens Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Bens Run quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Bens Run quadrangle1:24000
In the 1902 county history
13,709 words on this townshipThe county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Grandview Township covers a picturesque locality, location, soil, timber, etc, organization of township, early settlement and personal sketches, lease run settlement, churches.
Read the chapter on Grandview Township - 13,709 words.
Fires nearby
21 since 1993The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Beavertown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 126 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | DAVE DECKER FIRE |
| 30 May 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 May 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | THORN RIDGE |
| 4 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | FRIENDLY |
| 24 April 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SUGAR VALLEY ROAD |
| 8 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.5 acres | Wayne National Forest | 260 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SYCAMORE |
| 7 March 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 55 acres | Wayne National Forest | BELL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 234 shownMuseums hold 234 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beavertown between 1905 and 1975: 189 Animalia, 26 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew, E.A., Bonner C. M., Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alternaria solani Sorauer | 1905 | Post A. Lee | Long Reach | |
![]() | Cercospora canescens Ellis & G.Martin | 1905 | Johnson T. C. | Long Reach |
![]() | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1905 | Post A. L. | Long Reach |
![]() | Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni | 1905 | Post, A. L. | Long Reach |
![]() | Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter | 1905 | Johnson T. C. | Long Reach |
![]() | Puccinia dayi Clinton | 1909 | Bonner C. M. | Pleasants Co. |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry. |
![]() | Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
All 234 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beavertown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason's House of Flint Mine | Gemstone | Producer | 1969 | |
| Muskingum River G. Plant No. 2 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leith | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Ward (historical) | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Grandview | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Wade | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| New Matamoras | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Deucher | 4.5 miles | 20 | |
| Archers Fork | 5.0 miles | 20 | |
| Glass | 5.3 miles | 16 |
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 Beavertown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133336 | 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 1075335. 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.





























