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

Coryville, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Upper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45638. It stands on Hecla Branch Storms Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ironton quadrangle.

Coryville within Lawrence County

Then and now

1898 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coryville, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Coryville, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

261 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Coryville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,166 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 47 were 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	123
Arson/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Other causes	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM 09/09
7 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	11 acres	Wayne National Forest	WIND FIRE
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BAILEY
28 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Wayne National Forest	SAND HILL
26 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	ST. MARY'S CHURCH #1
24 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	IRONTON #1 FIRE
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	HANGING ROCK SPUR A
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 447 shown

Museums hold 447 specimens collected within 10 miles of Coryville between 1888 and 1972: 322 Animalia, 70 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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
Aecidium clematidis DC.	1896	F.L. Stevens
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
Meigeniella hinei Coquillett, 1902	1899	[Not Stated]	Hanging Rock
Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Big Sandy River, near mouth
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1890	Schneck	Hanging Rock
Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.	1892	W. C. Werner
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1892	W. C. Werner
Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.	1892	Carver Wm.	Ironton
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.	1892	W. C. Werner
Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton
Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner
Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton.

All 447 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coryville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Ironton Plant Number 85	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

21 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Coryville in 21 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Coryville	$100,000	Many trees were damaged along a tornado path, which started at the Court House in Ironton, and extended to the north-northeast for about 3 miles. Several outbuildings were destroyed, and the porch roof was removed from a house. The NWS Storm Survey team estimated the tornado had maximum winds of 110 MPH.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$40,000	A large tree fell down and hit a passing car on 5th Street. A parked police cruiser was also damaged.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Coryville	$35,000	Creeks such as Ice and Big Branch overflowed into the usual low spots. Backflow through the sewer system and urban street flooding caused water to get inside numerous basements in the city of Ironton.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$25,000	Trees were blown down onto power lines.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$4,000	Trees were blown down along Route 93.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$3,000	Trees and power lines were downed in and around Ironton. Roads impacted included Locust Alley and County Road 103.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down onto local roads within downtown Ironton.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$2,000	Windows were blown out of a business in downtown Ironton.
February 2020	Flood	Coryville	$2,000	The section of the Ohio River near Ironton rose above its 52 foot minor flood stage on the morning of the 14th. It crested late that night at 52.6 feet, and returned to its banks during the early afternoon hours on the 15th. During the time the river was above its banks, low areas along Storms Creek in Ohio were flooded.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$2,000	Multiple trees were downed along State Route 93.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$1,500	A tree fell onto a car and then onto the road at the intersection of North Second Street and Railroad Street in Ironton.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$1,000	Multiple trees were blown down all along 9th Street near Ironton.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$1,000	Several trees were blown down on a residential property in Ironton.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$750	In Coryville, power lines were broken and blown down.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$500	Outside of Ironton, a tree blew down onto the roadway between Township Road 310 and Township Road 290.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$500	One tree was blown down, completely blocking County Road 7 outside of Ironton.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$250	In Ironton, one tree was blown down onto North 2nd Street.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$200	One tree was blown down onto the intersection of Oak Street and South 4th Street in Ironton.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	$200	A tree fell at the 2000 block of Murdock Road at the intersection of Ora Richey Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Coryville	-	Trees fell onto power lines along Route 141.
March 2012	Hail	Coryville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ironton	1.1 miles	17
Hecla	1.4 miles	17
La Grange	2.1 miles	17
Green Valley	2.2 miles	17
Coal Grove	2.9 miles	17
Three Oaks	3.0 miles	17
Hanging Rock	3.2 miles	17
New Castle	3.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075636. 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.