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

Bondclay, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45694. It lies in Wolcott Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Pedro quadrangle.

Bondclay within Scioto County

Then and now

1898 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bondclay, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Bondclay, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

1,954 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 Vernon Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Vernon Township - 1,954 words.

Fires nearby

178 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Bondclay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,248 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 55 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
Arson/incendiarism55
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresWayne National ForestGREEN GRASS
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8765
24 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestPOPLAR FLATS
10 September 1998Smoking5.0 acresWayne National ForestPINE CR. 650/522
1 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWayne National ForestSUPERIOR FIRE
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreWayne National ForestINDEPENDENCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 108 shown

Museums hold 108 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bondclay between 1896 and 1974: 99 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aschinger, H. (Henry), C. Stein, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.) 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 Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181896F.L. Stevens
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 Alternaria Nees, not of this specimenAlternaria Nees1919Ricker A. J.Wheelersburg
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Riker A. J.Wheelersburg
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Riker A. J.Wheelersburg

All 108 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bondclay: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Bonclay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Bondclay MineClayPast Producer
Maquette Cement QuarryClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Superior Plant & Quarry CementClayProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Bondclay 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBondclay$2,000Two trees were knocked down on Clinton Furnace Road.

Every storm 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
Lyra1.9 miles13
Andre2.4 miles13
Madland (historical)4.2 miles10
Powellsville4.4 miles16
Ashley Corner5.0 miles12
Gephart6.2 miles12
Scioto Furnace6.3 miles12
Crestview Park6.5 miles16

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 Q122558162The 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 1075424. 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.

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.