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

Bridgewater, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44665. The Survey maps it on the Hanoverton quadrangle.

Bridgewater within Columbiana County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bridgewater, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bridgewater, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1879 county history

4,989 words on this township

The county history of 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Knox Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Knox Township - 4,989 words.

Fires nearby

11 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Bridgewater between 2005 and 2020, burning about 4 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15817
3 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15729
17 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15510
31 March 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15944
6 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15931

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 392 shown

Museums hold 392 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bridgewater between 1878 and 1967: 213 Animalia, 162 Plantae, 17 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, B. Leeper, Barschoff, L.H. 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
Specimen of Alternaria NeesAlternaria Nees1904D.F. Yenghing
A photograph of the species Tringa semipalmata, not of this specimenTringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanOhio Valley
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1883not recordedBeloit
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1887E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Asplenium filix-femina, not of this specimenAsplenium filix-femina (L.) Bernh.1887E. Wilkinson; CallSalem, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Aster prenanthoides, not of this specimenAster prenanthoides Muhl. ex Willd.1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
A photograph of the species Athyrium filix-femina, not of this specimenAthyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth1887E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Bromus secalinus, not of this specimenBromus secalinus L.1887WilkinsonSalem

All 392 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
North Georgetown1.0 miles14
Reading2.3 miles18
New Alexander2.8 miles14
Adair3.0 miles14
Valley3.4 miles14
Chambersburg3.6 miles18
New Garden4.1 miles14
Homeworth4.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062662. 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.