Bevan, Ohio
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Newport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45768. It stands on Kesselring Run. The Survey maps it on the Raven Rock 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
20 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
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Newport township, in the words of 1902.
The Drowning Of Charles Haskell
The drowning of Charles Haskell is perhaps the most remarkable and the saddest case of this kind on record. Charles Haskell was, at the time of his tragic death, a respected citizen and a prominent member of the Baptist church. He resided near the river where he had his store. Saturday, July 23, 1831, he observed that some boats that he had secured to the Ohio shore were being blown by the wind towards the Virginia side.
In the 1902 county history
23,474 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 Newport Township covers scenery, blennerhassett's visit to mt. dudley, fruit-raising, newell's run uplift, coal banks, deserted derricks.
Read the chapter on Newport Township - 23,474 words.
Fires nearby
31 since 1992The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Bevan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 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 | 12 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - MON POWER |
| 10 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SEVEN |
| 8 May 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | KINDERHOOK |
| 3 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | MT. PISGAH |
| 29 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BROAD RUN ROAD |
| 2 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | PLEASANTS CO. HUMANE SOCIETY |
| 2 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | PLEASANTS CO. HUMANE SOCIETY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 288 shownMuseums hold 288 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bevan between 1905 and 1975: 243 Animalia, 27 Fungi, 17 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Hazen Wright, Albert Wright, Allison W Cusick; Marilyn Ortt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1941 | Meddles, O.; Steele, M. | Millwood Twp. From rich woods (lilly), along Putney Ridge between Quaker City and Salesville. |
| 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. |
| Endasys subclavatus (Say, 1835) | 1928 | W.V. Balduf | ||
![]() | Scambus pterophori (Ashmead, 1890) | 1928 | W.V. Balduf | |
![]() | Vulgichneumon brevicinctor (Say, 1825) | 1928 | W.V. Balduf | |
![]() | Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Little Muskingum River, northeastern Marietta Twp |
![]() | 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 |
All 288 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2019The National Weather Service names Bevan in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bevan | $500 | In the town of Newport, two inch tree limbs were blown down. |
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 Bevan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133338 | 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 1075371. 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.
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.





























