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

Belmont Ridge, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Flushing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43983. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle.

Belmont Ridge within Belmont County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Belmont Ridge, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Belmont Ridge, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 county-history sources

5,223 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Flushing Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Ginseng and snakeroot were commodities much sought after in those days. The former commanded 10 cents and the latter 25 cents per pound. Farmers' wives and children were kept busy gathering these roots, which were exchanged for powder and lead, the former of which sold for $1.50 per pound, and the latter for 25 cents per pound. It is needless to add there was no useless waste of ammunition in target shooting by the pioneer boys. Another commodity in great request was salt, which was brought on pack horses from Virginia, and sold for $8 per bushel.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

Who will deny that in those days of primitive simplicity, when the worshipers were clad in red flannel and linsey-woolsey, there was not more zeal and enthusiasm in the service of God, than in our richly dressed congregations of today?

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

The Methodist Episcopal Church of Belmont Ridge. - This old church was built in 1831. Previous to that, services were held by the noted divine, Rev. James Findley, in the home of Samuel Burroughs. In 1811, George Winrod moved to section 14, where regular preach- ing services and class meetings were held, there and in the home of Dr. Watkins, until the construction of the church. The church has ever been a station, served in the olden times by "circuit riders." Some of the old-time preachers were: Revs. John Graham, John McMahon, vSanuiel Hamilton, Samuel Young, William Lamden, William Tipton, James Moore, John Minor and Samuel Brockunier.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

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 Flushing Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Belmont Ridge between 2003 and 2019, burning about 7 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
31 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1501
29 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2019	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15045
27 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15096

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 57 specimens collected within 10 miles of Belmont Ridge between 1899 and 1972: 40 Plantae, 17 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., CL & LC Hubbs 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
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Anas discors Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	Lafferty, Lafferty's Pond.
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Notropis buccatus (Cope, 1865)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Phoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township

All 57 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Loghaven	0.4 miles	14
Hidden Ledges Cottage Area	0.7 miles	14
Goodrich Cottage Area	0.9 miles	14
Hilltop Cottage Area	0.9 miles	14
Holloway	2.5 miles	14
Reynolds Road Cottage Area	2.6 miles	14
Golda	2.7 miles	14
Cabinet	3.8 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q122569852

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 1048517. 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.