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

Clendening, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Nottingham Township. It stands on Huff Run. The Survey maps it on the Deersville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Clendening within Harrison County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clendening (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Clendening (historical), surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Fires nearby

6 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Clendening (historical) between 2003 and 2015, burning about 6 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 March 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	504
5 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 151 shown

Museums hold 151 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clendening (historical) between 1889 and 1971: 95 Animalia, 46 Plantae, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Buker, W.E. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Ulmus americana L.	1908	Fink, B.	USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Uncinula macrospora Peck	1908	Fink, B.	USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Oxalis stricta L.	1889	L. Dickerson
Solanum emulans Raf.	1889	L. Dickerson
Syrphidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA
Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Little Stillwater Creek, trib of Stillwater River; SW Monroe Twp
Cyprinidae	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Brushy Fork, no more precise locality data, 3.6 miles southwest of Cadiz OH, Cadiz Township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Little Stillwater Creek, trib of Stillwater River; SW Monroe Twp

All 151 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Freeport	4.0 miles	16
Tippecanoe	4.0 miles	14
Deersville	4.1 miles	14
Moorefield	4.3 miles	14
East Piedmont	4.4 miles	14
Piedmont	4.5 miles	14
Hattonia (historical)	5.2 miles	14
Smyrna	5.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062448. 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.