Camp Oyo, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Nile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45663. It stands on Harber Fork Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pond Run quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 76 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
13 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.
- 1915 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the 1903 county history
7,646 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 Nile Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Nile Township - 7,646 words.
Fires nearby
20 since 2004The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Camp Oyo between 2004 and 2020, burning about 2,895 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9147 |
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15618 |
| 24 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,865 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | SHAWNEE COMPLEX |
| 20 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4868 |
| 15 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4867 |
| 14 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4866 |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12988 |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12987 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,013 shownMuseums hold 1,013 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Oyo between 1884 and 1975: 875 Animalia, 92 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A.J. Sharp, Anson A. Hinkley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1884 | H. Mores | Scioto River |
![]() | Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829 | 1896 | not recorded | Scioto River |
![]() | Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | Alum Rock |
![]() | Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819 | 1885 | Ch. R. Orcutt | Scioto River |
![]() | Myelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale | 1893 | Jones, T.H.B | Otway |
![]() | Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio |
![]() | Sympetrum Newman, 1833 | 1897 | J. Hine | Portsmouth |
![]() | Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867) | 1897 | J. Hine | Portsmouth |
![]() | Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820 | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Pond Run, Portsmouth |
![]() | Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Portsmouth |
![]() | Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 | 1909 | not recorded | Portsmouth, Ohio River |
![]() | Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852) | 1910 | Ortmann, Arnold E | Portsmouth |
All 1,013 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
7 since 2010The National Weather Service names Camp Oyo in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Oyo | 1 killed, $1,000 | A woman was killed by a falling tree while she was camping at the Shawnee State Forest. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Camp Oyo | $5,000 | A slab bridge was partially washed away along Upper Twin Creek-Rocky Fork Road. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Oyo | $1,000 | A large tree was knocked down over a road. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Camp Oyo | $1,000 | One tree was downed over State Route 125, two miles off of U.S. 52. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Camp Oyo | - | State Route 125 was closed due to high water. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Camp Oyo | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Camp Oyo | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendship | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Dennis | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Pond Run | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Sugar Grove | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Kennvale | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Alexandria | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Shannoah Town (historical) | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Pink | 6.2 miles | 12 |
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 Q122571031 | 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 1048576. 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.
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.
























