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

Clarktown, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in Burns Hollow. The Survey maps it on the New Boston quadrangle.

Clarktown within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clarktown, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Clarktown, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1,960 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 Jefferson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jefferson Township - 1,960 words.

Fires nearby

31 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Clarktown between 2003 and 2020, burning about 254 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined57 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14185
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13865
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,009 shown

Museums hold 1,009 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clarktown between 1884 and 1975: 939 Animalia, 41 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884H. MoresScioto River
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Campeloma Rafinesque, not of this specimenCampeloma Rafinesque, 18191885Ch. R. OrcuttScioto River
A photograph of the species Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1889Craig M.Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
Specimen of Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291896not recordedScioto River
unnamed1897MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 1,009 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Clarktown in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindClarktown$3,000A few trees were downed along Blue Run Township Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindClarktown$3,000A few trees were downed.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindClarktown$2,000A large tree was knocked down into a power pole on Riddlebarger Road. Power lines were knocked down.
March 2017FloodClarktown-State Route 139 was closed near Oliver Road due to high water. State Route 139 was also closed due to high water near the Jackson County line. In addition, high water closed Goose Creek Road near Wheelersburg.

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
Rubyville2.0 miles12
Harrison Furnace2.1 miles12
Minford2.7 miles12
Purdy Corners2.8 miles12
Wheelers Mill3.6 miles12
Preston Addition3.7 miles12
Tomlison Addition4.1 miles12
Perry Addition4.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039145. 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.