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

Crabapple, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wheeling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43950. It stands on Crabapple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clairsville quadrangle.

Crabapple within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crabapple, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Crabapple, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

In the 1903 county history

3,013 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the first settlements, deprivations of, the pioneers, the first settlers, the population, the industries, the mineral resources.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 3,013 words.

Fires nearby

9 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Crabapple between 2003 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1

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
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15252
9 May 2017Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9666
23 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9667
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12685
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10647
28 October 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 155 shown

Museums hold 155 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crabapple between 1877 and 1974: 129 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, CL & LC Hubbs, Collector(s): Jim L. Hayward; Preparator(s): Jim L. Hayward 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 Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1971Cusick, A.W.disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
A photograph of the species Hamamelis virginiana, not of this specimenHamamelis virginiana L.1877Guttenberg, G.St. Clairsville Rd
A photograph of the species Prunus serotina, not of this specimenPrunus serotina Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, G.Stone Bridge, Clarisville Rd, Huchenville
A photograph of the species Staphylea trifolia, not of this specimenStaphylea trifolia L.1877Guttenberg, G.Stow Bridge on the road to St. Clairsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Fragaria americana, not of this specimenFragaria americana (Porter) Britton1878Guttenberg, G.St. Clairsville
A photograph of the species Fragaria virginiana, not of this specimenFragaria virginiana Mill.1878Guttenberg, G.St. Clairsville
A photograph of the species Rubus odoratus, not of this specimenRubus odoratus L.1878Guttenberg, G.S of Clairsville
A photograph of the species Ruellia strepens, not of this specimenRuellia strepens L.1878s.c.Mt. Echo
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1884Jones, J. (Jesse)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hylocichla mustelina, not of this specimenHylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Quiscalus quiscula, not of this specimenQuiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 18191885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Turdus migratorius, not of this specimenTurdus migratorius Linnaeus, 17661885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 155 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Crabapple in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCrabapple$5,000A front porch was ripped off a home along State Route 145. Pictures provided.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCrabapple$2,000Multiple trees were reported down and/or uprooted.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCrabapple$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindCrabapple$1,000Report of trees down from MPing.
June 1998HailCrabapple-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Fairpoint1.1 miles17
Donnersville1.5 miles17
Bannock1.9 miles17
Uniontown2.1 miles17
Oco2.4 miles17
Midway2.5 miles17
Highland Terrace2.6 miles17
Shepherdstown2.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1082145. 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.

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.