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.
Then and now
1912 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
In the 1903 county history
4,336 words on this townshipThe 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 1998The 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/undetermined | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5425 |
| 12 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 132 TRUCK |
| 24 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | SPUR A FIRE |
| 17 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | FALSE ALARM 04/11/10 |
| 9 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 24 acres | Wayne National Forest | CRAB CLAW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 124 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Polyporus semipileatus Peck | 1928 | Walter Phillips | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1928 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow |
![]() | Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854 | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1899 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Inonotus dryadeus (Pers.) Murrill | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
All 124 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hales Creek | 1.0 miles | 10 | |
| South Webster | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Eifort | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Madland (historical) | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Edmunds Switch | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Scioto Furnace | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Frederick | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Andre | 4.6 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.
| Wikipedia article on Bloom Junction | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23698467 | 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 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.





















