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

Clifford, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45648. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wakefield quadrangle.

Clifford within Scioto County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clifford, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Clifford, surveyed 1915

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

4,993 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 Valley Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Valley Township - 4,993 words.

Fires nearby

40 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Clifford between 2004 and 2020, burning about 224 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15224
9 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15743
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1261
9 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning20 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 1,316 shown

Museums hold 1,316 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clifford between 1885 and 1975: 1,162 Animalia, 107 Fungi, 43 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 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 Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
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
A photograph of the species Myelochroa galbina, not of this specimenMyelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale1893Jones, T.H.BOtway
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
unnamed1897MorganPreston
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
Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 1,316 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Clifford: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Waller Bros QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Cutlip Plant Dredge & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucasville Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucasville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms nearby

10 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Clifford in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 flash 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindClifford$20,000At least two dozen trees were downed across the county.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindClifford$10,000Numerous trees and power lines downed.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindClifford$3,000Large trees were downed along Millers Run-Fallen Timber Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClifford$3,000Several trees were downed northwest of Lucasville.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindClifford$1,000A large tree was downed.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindClifford$500One 4.5 inch diameter tree limb was knocked down near Lucusville. In addition, some unsecured lawn items were blown around.
September 2024Flash FloodClifford-High water was flowing along McNamer Brown Road.
August 2022FloodClifford-High water was reported on Big Run Road.
February 2021FloodClifford-High water was reported over several roads throughout the county.
July 2016FloodClifford-Flooding was reported on several roads in Morgan, Rush and Valley Townships.

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
Bear Creek2.5 miles12
Cockrell Run2.8 miles12
Lucasville3.5 miles12
Tomlison Addition3.7 miles12
Preston Addition4.1 miles12
Crabtree5.1 miles12
Owensville5.3 miles13
Sedan5.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048606. 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.

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.