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

Bloom Junction, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45682. It stands on Brady Run. The Survey maps it on the South Webster quadrangle.

Bloom Junction within Scioto County

Then and now

1912 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bloom Junction, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Bloom Junction, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 1903 county history

4,336 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Bloom Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bloom Township - 4,336 words.

Fires nearby

55 since 1998

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Bloom Junction between 1998 and 2019, burning about 445 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5425
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWayne National Forest132 TRUCK
24 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestSPUR A FIRE
17 June 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestFALSE ALARM 04/11/10
9 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2012Equipment and vehicle use24 acresWayne National ForestCRAB CLAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 124 shown

Museums hold 124 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloom Junction between 1898 and 1974: 84 Fungi, 34 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aschinger, H. (Henry), Bryant, J., C. Stein 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 Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Polyporus semipileatus PeckPolyporus semipileatus Peck1928Walter PhillipsMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.CurtisTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1928G. T. JonesMill Hollow
A photograph of the species Planesticus Bonaparte, not of this specimenPlanesticus Bonaparte, 18541898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sphyrapicus varius, not of this specimenSphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sitta canadensis, not of this specimenSitta canadensis Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Inonotus dryadeus, not of this specimenInonotus dryadeus (Pers.) Murrill1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River

All 124 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 Bloom Junction: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto 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
Hales Creek1.0 miles10
South Webster1.9 miles10
Eifort2.8 miles10
Madland (historical)3.0 miles10
Edmunds Switch3.5 miles12
Scioto Furnace3.9 miles12
Frederick4.5 miles12
Andre4.6 miles13

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 Bloom JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698467The 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 1075410. 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.