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Captina, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43933. It stands on Moore Run. The Survey maps it on the Businessburg quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 83 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.
- 1905 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Moundsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on York township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Another Indian Massacre. ' And Representative Citizens
"One morning they noticed a young Indian dodging along not far from the fort among the trees. He had been sent by a body of Indians who had ambushed about three miles below, on the banks of the Ohio River, to decoy the soldiers from the fort. As soon as he was discovered, Lieutenant McArthur and his men started out to catch him.
In the county-history sources
3,792 words on this townshipCentennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on York Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
York township has been the scene of some of the bloodiest conflicts in Indian warfare. Before the occupation by the whites, a cruel massacre of the Indians at the mouth of the Captina was one of the causes of the disastrous war of Governor Dunmore in 1774.
Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.
McDonald in his Ifiographical sketch of Governor McArthur, who was in the action, says that after the death of Captain Enochs, McArthur, although the youngest man in the company. was unanimously called upon to direct a retreat.
Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.
In early days, an Indian village was located in section 32; some miles back of the river. On the banks of the Captina and on the settlement of the Brysons an unusual number of grape vines were discovered, and the soil was beaten hard in places, as if formerly the homes and streets of an Indian village. Skeletons, Indian arrows in great numbers, Indian pipes and engravings on rocks were found in abundance. General Washington in his trip down the Ohio in 1 770 makes mention of this village as a trading post.
Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on York Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.
Fires near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Captina between 1994 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WASHINGTON LANDS - ROUND BOTTOM |
| 14 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12565 |
| 9 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4187 |
| 8 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4185 |
| 30 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 621 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 884 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 884 specimens collected within 10 miles of Captina between 1829 and 1975: 624 Plantae, 146 Animalia, 113 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829 | 1829 | J.R. Paddock | |
 | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1839 | J.R. Paddock | |
 | Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont. | 1905 | J.L. Sheldon | Near Round Bottom |
 | Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn. | 1835 | E. Wilkinson | Ohio |
 | Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1837 | B. Frank | Ohio |
 | Carex × sullivantii Boott | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant | Ohio |
 | Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull. | 1843 | D. Sullivan | |
 | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1844 | S. B. Mead | Ohio |
 | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | |
 | Carex gracilescens Steud. | 1847 | G. B. Ashcroft | Ohio |
 | Carex stricta Lam. | 1853 | E. L. Moseley | Ohio |
 | Cylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull. | 1863 | D. Sullivan |
All 884 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Captina: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Bituminous, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captina Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Point Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous | Producer | ||
| Powhatan Point Plant | Silica | Unknown | ||
| Captina Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steinersville | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Clover Hill | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Dorsey (historical) | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Businessburg | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Vadis | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Powhatan Point | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Armstrongs Mills | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Becket (historical) | 5.0 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.
| Wikipedia article on Captina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133622 | 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 1060924. 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.