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

Costonia, Ohio

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Island Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43964. It stands on Little Island Creek. The Survey maps it on the Weirton quadrangle.

Costonia within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Costonia, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Costonia, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

24 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

7 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Costonia between 2002 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPOLK STREET
1 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1783
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7096
27 February 2017Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7059
9 November 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPARK PLAZA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 556 shown

Museums hold 556 specimens collected within 10 miles of Costonia between 1836 and 1973: 299 Animalia, 220 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1836Jewett
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Carex hirsutella, not of this specimenCarex hirsutella Mack.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium latifolium, not of this specimenDichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon, not of this specimenDichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Elymus hystrix, not of this specimenElymus hystrix L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1877Guttenberg, G.near Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum mutilum, not of this specimenHypericum mutilum L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum punctatum, not of this specimenHypericum punctatum Lam.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Luzula echinata, not of this specimenLuzula echinata (Small) F.J.Herm.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville

All 556 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 Costonia: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Chromium, Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Steubenville SmelterIron, ChromiumPlant
Kaul Clay Company PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Wheeling-Pittsburgh/ SteubenvilleIronProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms nearby

2 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Costonia in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2012: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2010Flash FloodCostonia$75,000Little Island Creek out of banks near Costonia with local roads flooded. Motorist stranded in car.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCostonia$20,000Trees were reported down by media in Costonia.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Markle1.6 miles24
Pottery Addition1.7 miles23
Pleasant Hill2.2 miles23
Wallace Heights2.2 miles23
Pekin2.4 miles23
Fairview Heights2.4 miles24
Ridgeland2.5 miles23
Stanton Park2.7 miles23

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 CostoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133679The 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 1066288. 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.