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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.

Beavertown within Washington County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Beavertown, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Beavertown, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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 1902 county history

13,709 words on this township

The 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 1993

The 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
27 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestDAVE DECKER FIRE
30 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTHORN RIDGE
4 April 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryFRIENDLY
24 April 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySUGAR VALLEY ROAD
8 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresWayne National Forest260
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestSYCAMORE
7 March 2001Arson/incendiarism55 acresWayne National ForestBELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 234 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Alternaria solani Sorauer1905Post A. LeeLong Reach
A photograph of the species Cercospora canescens, not of this specimenCercospora canescens Ellis & G.Martin1905Johnson T. C.Long Reach
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181905Post A. L.Long Reach
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1905Post, A. L.Long Reach
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1905Johnson T. C.Long Reach
A photograph of the species Puccinia dayi, not of this specimenPuccinia dayi Clinton1909Bonner C. M.Pleasants Co.
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Dysphania botrys, not of this specimenDysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, 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 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mason's House of Flint MineGemstoneProducer1969
Muskingum River G. Plant No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Leith2.3 miles20
Ward (historical)2.7 miles16
Grandview2.9 miles18
Wade3.9 miles20
New Matamoras4.3 miles18
Deucher4.5 miles20
Archers Fork5.0 miles20
Glass5.3 miles16

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 BeavertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133336The 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.