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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.

Cornerville within Washington County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Cornerville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Cornerville, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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 1902 county history

15,123 words on this township

The 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 1995

The 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Other causes1

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 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPOLECAT HOLLOW
30 August 2012Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - CYTEC
10 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestSEVEN
13 April 2018Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14565
12 April 2018Smoking3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCOOPER RIDGE/EMERSON AVENUE
26 March 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 2
22 March 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryALLEGHENY POWER PLANT
20 March 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWILLIAMSTOWN PIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,140 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.1923W.G. StonerMarietta
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1932C. MayMarietta
Specimen of Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.1932L.W.R.J.Nursery, Marietta
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1853E. AndrewsMarietta, Ohio
A photograph of the species Actinonaias carinata, not of this specimenActinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1879W. HoldenOhio River, Near Marietta
A photograph of the species Necturus maculosus, not of this specimenNecturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)1886Georg BaurMarietta
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Shufeldt, R.Marietta
A photograph of the species Progne subis, not of this specimenProgne subis (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Shufeldt, R.Marietta
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1896A. D. SelbyRainbow.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1896F.L. StevensMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias kleiniana, not of this specimenCyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta

All 1,140 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Marietta SmelterManganese, ChromiumPlant
Duckworth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Union Carbide/ Marietta, OhioIron, ManganeseProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms nearby

3 since 2015

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCornerville$2,000Multiple trees were blown down and some shingles were blown off a house along Route 26.
May 2018FloodCornerville$1,000Sections 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 2015HailCornerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Sandhill1.4 miles17
Dell1.5 miles19
Reno2.0 miles17
Yankeeburg2.0 miles19
Hills2.6 miles19
Morningside2.9 miles17
East Norwood3.2 miles17
Norwood3.5 miles17

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 CornervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133345The 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.