Cornerville, Ohio
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Marietta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45750. It stands on Lick Run. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1904 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
In the 1902 county history
15,123 words on this townshipThe county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Marietta Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Marietta Township - 15,123 words.
Fires nearby
17 since 1995The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Cornerville between 1995 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | POLECAT HOLLOW |
| 30 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - CYTEC |
| 10 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SEVEN |
| 13 April 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14565 |
| 12 April 2018 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | COOPER RIDGE/EMERSON AVENUE |
| 26 March 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | RT. 2 |
| 22 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | ALLEGHENY POWER PLANT |
| 20 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WILLIAMSTOWN PIKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,140 shownMuseums hold 1,140 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cornerville between 1853 and 1975: 1,047 Animalia, 54 Fungi, 37 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr. | 1923 | W.G. Stoner | Marietta |
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1932 | C. May | Marietta |
![]() | Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers. | 1932 | L.W.R.J. | Nursery, Marietta |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1853 | E. Andrews | Marietta, Ohio |
![]() | Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900) | 1879 | W. Holden | Ohio River, Near Marietta |
![]() | Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1886 | Georg Baur | Marietta |
![]() | Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Shufeldt, R. | Marietta |
![]() | Progne subis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Shufeldt, R. | Marietta |
![]() | Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1896 | A. D. Selby | Rainbow. |
![]() | Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | Marietta |
![]() | Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852) | 1897 | Sterki, Victor | Marietta |
![]() | Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1897 | Sterki, Victor | Marietta |
All 1,140 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cornerville: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Chromium, Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Marietta Smelter | Manganese, Chromium | Plant | ||
| Duckworth Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Union Carbide/ Marietta, Ohio | Iron, Manganese | Producer |
Storms nearby
3 since 2015The National Weather Service names Cornerville in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cornerville | $2,000 | Multiple trees were blown down and some shingles were blown off a house along Route 26. |
| May 2018 | Flood | Cornerville | $1,000 | Sections of State Routes 26, 145 and 821 flooded due to high water along Duck Creek.||The gage on Duck Creek at Whipple showed the creek crested at 12.3 feet, just above its 12 foot bankfull level during the mid morning. The creek had spilled from its banks just before sunrise, and the flood waters had receded by mid afternoon. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Cornerville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandhill | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Dell | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Reno | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Yankeeburg | 2.0 miles | 19 | |
| Hills | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Morningside | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| East Norwood | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Norwood | 3.5 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Cornerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133345 | 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 1075634. 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.






























