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Crabtree, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45648. The Survey maps it on the Wakefield quadrangle.

Crabtree within Scioto County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crabtree, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Crabtree, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1,406 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Morgan Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Morgan Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

64 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Crabtree between 2003 and 2020, burning about 451 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15224
2 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution23 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12405
9 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,463 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,463 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crabtree between 1885 and 1975: 1,298 Animalia, 111 Fungi, 50 Plantae, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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 Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897F.L. StevensAlum Rock
A photograph of the species Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1889Craig M.Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
A photograph of the species Myelochroa galbina, not of this specimenMyelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale1893Jones, T.H.BOtway
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
unnamed1897MorganPreston
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 1,463 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Crabtree: 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lucasville Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucasville Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Taylor Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Waller Brothers Stone QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Taylor Stone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Waller Bros QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Waller Bros QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Waller Bros QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Waller Brothers Stone CompanyFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crabtree in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2016Flash FloodCrabtree$10,000High water was reported on State Route 348 between mile post 10 and 11. A truck was also washed off the road at Cooper Road and Route 348. A water rescue took place.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCrabtree$4,000A few trees were downed onto power lines.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCrabtree$3,000Multiple trees were downed.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCrabtree$1,000A large tree was downed across Henry Deemer Road in Union Township.
September 2018FloodCrabtree-Several Roads throughout Scioto County were closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Arion3.2 miles13
Bear Creek3.4 miles12
Sedan3.9 miles12
Henley4.3 miles12
Owensville4.4 miles13
McDermott4.5 miles13
Otway4.8 miles12
Clifford5.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062719. 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.