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Beckett, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Waterford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45786. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1909 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
41,950 words on this townshipHistory of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Waterford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Laban Vincent was born in Rhode Island in 1750. He emigrated to Ohio in 1806 and settled in Marietta. By his wife, Anna Waterman, he had eleven children. John Vincent, their son, was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He came to Ohio with his parents and settled in Union township, now Muskingum. In 1808 he moved to Waterford township, where he died in 1852. He was one of the first settlers on the east side of the river in the upper part of the township. He married Rachel, daughter of Asa Olney, who was one of the earliest settlers of the township. They had ten children, two of whom live in this township - Clarinda Beckett and John Vincent, jr. The latter was born in this township in 1818. In 1839 he married Mary A. Bacon, who was born in 1820. He served as supervisor fourteen years. He has had seven children, four of whom are living, viz: Mary A., at home John B., in Dakota; Eli B., in Dakota; and Prussia, at home. Prudence, Eliza J., and Thirza died young.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
Daniel Roberts was born in Pennsylvania in 1792. In 1817 he married Hannah Bedagrew, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1800, They had twelve children, six of whom - Alexander, Daniel, John, James, Richard and Nancy C. (Davis) - reside in Missouri. Williain resides in Illinois. Margaret (Keath), Jeremiah and Isaiah are dead. Amos was born in Perry county in 1818. In 1838 he married Charlotte Taylor, who was born in 1818. She died in 1843, leaving two children - Margaret (Beckett), who lives in Oregon, and Elisha, who was killed at New Madrid in 1862, while in his country's service. Palmer, the first child, died in infancy. Mr. Roberts married, in 1844, Mrs. Frances White, widow of Harris White, by whom he had three children. Henry S., the oldest, lives on the homestead. He is married to Rosanna A. Webster, and has a family of three children. Harris White, first husband of Mrs. Amos Roberts, was born in 1808 and died in 1842. only one of whom is living. Hiram W. resides in Washington Territory.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
William Beckett was born in Jefferson county in 1807. In 1829 he married Anna Watson. She died in 1835, leaving three children - Mary A. (Alton), who lives in Virginia, John P., in Waterford township, and Erasmus W., at McConnelsville. William Beckett was married the second time in 1838, to Clarissa Vincent, who was born in Waterford township in 1810. He had by his second wife five children, viz.: Sarah E. (Kean), lives in
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Waterford Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
31 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Beckett between 2012 and 2020, burning about 41 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 burning | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5588 |
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5585 |
| 23 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5587 |
| 5 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1461 |
| 25 June 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5045 |
| 27 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14245 |
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13508 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 567 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 567 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beckett between 1887 and 1974: 470 Animalia, 84 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820 | 1962 | D. Stansbery | Waterford Township, Muskingum River, Beverly |
 | Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1962 | D. Stansbery | Muskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly |
 | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
 | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
.jpg) | Crystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 2008 | 1888 | Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.) | Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township |
 | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
 | Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio |
 | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
 | Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
 | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
 | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1904 | not recorded | Meigs Creek |
 | Calla palustris L. | 1927 | G. Eifrig | Hayward |
All 567 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beckett: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Thorium, REE, Iron, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterhill Stone Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Interlake Inc/ Beverly, Ohio | Thorium, REE, Iron, Chromium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beckett in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2019 | Flood | Beckett | $8,000 | The Muskingum River flooded near Beverly, closing several roads, including Route 60. Several homes and camps also sustained minor flooding.||The river gage at Beverly showed the river rose above its 29 foot flood stage late on the 6th, and crested at nearly 30 feet that night before returning to its banks around sunrise. Additional rain was falling at that time and the river came out if its banks again that evening, cresting just over 33 feet before sunrise on the 8th. The river returned to its banks late that evening. |
| April 2018 | Flood | Beckett | $2,000 | Low areas along the Muskingum River near Beverly flooded as the Muskingum River crested half a foot above flood stage. The river rose above its 29 foot flood stage just before sunrise on the 16th. It crested during the mid afternoon at 29.5 feet and then returned to within its banks early that evening. |
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.
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 Beckett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133337 | 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 1062646. 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.