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Cow Run, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45773. It lies in Dark Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle.

Cow Run 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 Cow Run, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Cow Run, 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 county-history sources

14,305 words on this township

History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Lawrence Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The body of the soil on the terraces is red sand, sufficiently mixed with disentegrated limestone to make it fertile. Where the limestone is wanting satisfactory production can only be secured by the liberal application of fertilizers. In most portions of the township the land is naturally productive and easily cultivated. Wheat yields fairly, and of late years tobacco culture has been extensively and successfully pursued. The rich loam of the Little Muskingum valley yields large crops of Indian corn. That Lawrence is adapted to stock-raising is proved by the experience of the Scotch settlement in the north part of the township, a notice of which will be found further on. The German settlement in the northwest corner of the township occupies, probably, the most sterile portion, but under industrious and careful cultivation the hills in that section, once considered valueless, are enriching their owners.

Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.

Oil is found only where there are fissures or breaks in the rock strata, caused by subterranean disturbance. At the time these fissures were formed they extended to great depths, and through them vapors from the distillation of bitumuous materials came up, condensed to a liquid state and filled the pores and crevices.

Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.

There is in Lawrence township a well marked uplift, the centre of which is on'the hill on the south side of Cow run, near the line of the Exchange company's territory. From this point the axis of the break slopes gradually toward the north until at Burning Spring, on Fifteen, the anticlinal feature is scarcely perceptible. The eastern and western dips on Cow run are very rapid, and oil men are guided by surface indications where to locate wells. Further north on Morse run and Fifteen, the surface indications of subterranean fissures are so slight that it is impossible to locate them. 'The break also declines from Cow run toward the south, and is no longer perceptible at Eight Mile run.

Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Lawrence Township - it names this place 17 more 17 times.

Fires near this place

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Cow Run between 2001 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National Forest15 MILE FIRE
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestNEFF RIDGE
16 August 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5405
5 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresWayne National Forest15 MILE
3 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestMT. PISGAH
24 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresWayne National ForestSTATE ROUTE 26
19 March 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWayne National ForestNEFF RIDGE FIRE
19 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14566

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,181 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,181 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cow Run between 1853 and 1975: 1,094 Animalia, 48 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 1,181 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Gracey1.0 miles19
Sitka1.6 miles19
Moss Run1.8 miles19
Fay2.1 miles19
Schley2.9 miles19
Hills3.0 miles19
Dart3.2 miles19
Dell3.5 miles19

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 Cow RunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133346The 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 1075639. 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.