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Clearport, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43130. It stands on Muddy Prairie Run. The Survey maps it on the Clearport quadrangle.

Clearport within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clearport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Clearport, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 county-history sources

302 words on this township

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first saw-mill in the township was built by Isaac Shjeffer. A man by the name of Aker is referred to as having been the first to carry on the blacksmith business, and the first and only tavern for the time was kept by John Sweyer. In the j'ear 1835, there were five mills in the township, owned respectively by Shaeffer, Deffenbaugh, Welsheimer, Griffith and Guy. The Methodists and Lutherans have churches in Madison. There are two hamlets in the township, known as Clearport and Mechanicsburg. Rev. Mr. Steck, Lutheran, preached there as early as 1816. John Wiley, an extensive stock dealer, settled in Madison in 1828. In 1854, a post-office was established at Clearport, commonly called Abbot's store. The Abbot family have kept the office from its beginning till now.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

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 Madison Township.

Fires near this place

20 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Clearport between 2007 and 2020, burning about 18 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
31 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15339
14 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15353
29 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15341
5 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15201
24 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1581
5 April 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7765
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15597
25 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15344

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,629 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,629 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clearport between 1839 and 1975: 1,844 Animalia, 529 Fungi, 241 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

All 2,629 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearport in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindClearport$50,000About a hundred trees were downed between two properties near Crooks Road. A pool was also damaged.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindClearport$5,000Trees and power lines knocked down.
May 2003HailClearport$5,000no account filed
March 2012HailClearport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Revenge2.0 miles13
Hamburg2.4 miles12
Drinkle3.3 miles13
Amanda3.9 miles12
Delmont4.2 miles12
Oakland4.4 miles12
New Strasburg4.8 miles12
Pine Lake Estates5.1 miles13

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 Q122594043The 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 1062698. 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.