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

Blackband, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43840. It lies in Angel Valley. The Survey maps it on the Stone Creek quadrangle.

Blackband within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1911 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blackband, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Blackband, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1884 county history

2,907 words on this township

The county history of 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jefferson Township covers erection, boundaries, surface features, products, first settlers, mills, schools and churches.

Read the chapter on Jefferson Township - 2,907 words.

Fires nearby

13 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Blackband between 2005 and 2020, burning about 26 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1087
21 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15496
10 March 2018Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13587
1 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15432
28 February 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16052

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 499 shown

Museums hold 499 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blackband between 1851 and 1973: 416 Animalia, 67 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cibula, A. Cobula, A. Perry 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
Specimen of Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 1895Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 18951894G. MarstonTuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
Specimen of Pisidium fallax Sterki, 1896Pisidium fallax Sterki, 18961894G. MarstonTuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
Specimen of Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 1858Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 18581895G. Marstonfrom spring - brook lat. 4 miles south of New Philadelpia (Sterki)
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Anemone canadensis, not of this specimenAnemone canadensis L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1851Wolle, J.Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
A photograph of the species Delphinium tricorne, not of this specimenDelphinium tricorne Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1851Wolle, J.Canal Dover
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Tuscarawa City
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum virginianum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum virginianum L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1851Wolle, J.Canal Downs [Canal Dover]

All 499 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Blackband: 3 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal. 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
Arrow Head PitClay, CoalProducer
Stone Creek PitStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
Stone Creek Shale PitClayProducer
George Meuhlhooffer ProspectIronOccurrence
Jessie Simmon ProspectIronOccurrence
Walter Harmon ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas 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
Yorktown2.0 miles15
Stone Creek2.2 miles15
Joyce2.9 miles15
Old Town4.3 miles15
Odbert (historical)4.8 miles15
Ragersville4.8 miles14
Wainwright6.0 miles15
South Side6.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064443. 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.