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.
Then and now
1905 to 1986The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
In the 1903 county history
3,013 words on this townshipThe 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 2003The 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15252 |
| 9 May 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9666 |
| 23 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9667 |
| 14 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12685 |
| 28 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10647 |
| 28 October 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 155 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore | 1971 | Cusick, A.W. | disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp. |
![]() | Hamamelis virginiana L. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | St. Clairsville Rd |
![]() | Prunus serotina Ehrh. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | Stone Bridge, Clarisville Rd, Huchenville |
![]() | Staphylea trifolia L. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | Stow Bridge on the road to St. Clairsville, Ohio |
![]() | Fragaria americana (Porter) Britton | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | St. Clairsville |
![]() | Fragaria virginiana Mill. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | St. Clairsville |
![]() | Rubus odoratus L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | S of Clairsville |
![]() | Ruellia strepens L. | 1878 | s.c. | Mt. Echo |
![]() | Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1884 | Jones, J. (Jesse) | Belmont, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789) | 1885 | Jones, J. (Jesse) | West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819 | 1885 | Jones, J. (Jesse) | Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 | 1885 | Jones, J. (Jesse) | Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA |
All 155 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
5 since 1998The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crabapple | $5,000 | A front porch was ripped off a home along State Route 145. Pictures provided. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crabapple | $2,000 | Multiple trees were reported down and/or uprooted. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crabapple | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crabapple | $1,000 | Report of trees down from MPing. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Crabapple | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairpoint | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Donnersville | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Bannock | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Uniontown | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Oco | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Midway | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Highland Terrace | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Shepherdstown | 2.7 miles | 17 |
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.




























