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.
Then and now
1907 to 1984The 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 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.
- 1907 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
302 words on this townshipA 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.
Fires near this place
20 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15339 |
| 14 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15353 |
| 29 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15341 |
| 5 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15201 |
| 24 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1581 |
| 5 April 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7765 |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15597 |
| 25 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15344 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,629 shownRegional 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829 | 1890 | Detmers, Freda | Sugar Grove |
![]() | Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm. | 1891 | M. Craig | Sugar Grove |
![]() | Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur | 1891 | Freda Detmers | Rock Mill |
| Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | ||
![]() | Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl. | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray | 1839 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda | 1840 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle | 1840 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv. | 1841 | not recorded | |
![]() | Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs | 1841 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid. | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant |
All 2,629 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearport | $50,000 | About a hundred trees were downed between two properties near Crooks Road. A pool was also damaged. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearport | $5,000 | Trees and power lines knocked down. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Clearport | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Clearport | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenge | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hamburg | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Drinkle | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Amanda | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Delmont | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Oakland | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| New Strasburg | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Pine Lake Estates | 5.1 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 Q122594043 | 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 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.























