Bulaville, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Addison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It lies in Honey Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle.
Then and now
1908 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1908 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Point Pleasant quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Addison quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Addison quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Addison quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Addison quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
40 since 1992The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Bulaville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | PUMPKIN RUN |
| 8 April 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | PUMPKIN RUN |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4266 |
| 4 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | RT. 2 & 62 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 344 shownMuseums hold 344 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bulaville between 1862 and 1973: 169 Animalia, 118 Fungi, 43 Plantae, 12 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., CLACK, LINDSAY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902 | 1900 | [Not Stated] | Vinton |
![]() | Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck | 1901 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Carex communis var. communis | 1862 | W. M. Canby | Cheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.] |
![]() | Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév. | 1891 | Millspaugh C. F. | Point Pleasant |
![]() | Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl. | 1891 | Millspaugh C. F. | Point Pleasant |
![]() | Uromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 1847 | 1891 | Millspaugh C. F. | Point Pleasant |
| unnamed | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
| Animalia | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
![]() | Arthromacra aenea | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Chrysotus Meigen, 1824 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Chrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 1924 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States |
| Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 1861 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States |
All 344 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
5 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bulaville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eppling Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Queen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Queen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Thompson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Thompson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 2020The National Weather Service names Bulaville in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bulaville | $6,000 | Multiple trees and power poles were downed onto roadways in Cheshire, including Addison Pike, Poplar Ridge Road, Little Kyger Road, and Roush Hollow. |
| April 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Bulaville | - | A funnel cloud was observed by a trained spotter near Bulaville and persisted for two minutes. This area of rotation had spawned a wall cloud earlier in the evening near the Huntington Airport in West Virginia. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tara Estates | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Addison | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Prospect Hill (historical) | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Gilmore Heights | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Westbrook Village | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Kanauga | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Mills | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Kerr | 4.5 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.
| Wikidata item Q122571354 | 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 1062677. 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.























