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

Craig, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43725. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge quadrangle.

Craig within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Craig, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Craig, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

33 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Craig between 2011 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
29 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8805
21 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5205
12 July 2016	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5165
8 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1281
8 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15613
26 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15665

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 348 shown

Museums hold 348 specimens collected within 10 miles of Craig between 1875 and 1975: 135 Fungi, 123 Animalia, 86 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.	1902	F.O. Grover	Black Swamp
Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821	1916	not recorded
Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878	1916	not recorded
Asclepias tuberosa L.	1875	s.c.	Fairmont
Enslenia albida Nutt.	1875	s.c.	Fairmont
Impatiens pallida Nutt.	1875	Lloyd, Curtis Gates	Fairmont
Stereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.	1893	Holden Wm.	College Hill
Favolus europaeus Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
Pleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
Polystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill
Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1895	Holden Wm.	College Hill

All 348 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Craig: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cambridge Plant	Vanadium, Zirconium, Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Guernsey County

Storms nearby

6 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Craig in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
November 2011	Flood	Craig	$50,000	Emergency manager reported several roads closed due to flooding in and around Cambridge.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Craig	$5,000	Report of several trees uprooted in a backyard.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Craig	$2,000	A tree fell onto a house.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Craig	$2,000	Member of the public reported that high wind ripped the latticework from the back deck and blew down limbs in a yard along Larrick Ridge Road.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Craig	$500	A citizen reported trees down along old National Road.
May 2019	Hail	Craig	-	A law enforcement officer reported hail 2.00 inches in size.

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kipling	2.1 miles	14
Sunnymeade	2.3 miles	15
East Cambridge	2.5 miles	15
Eastmoor	2.5 miles	15
Fairmont	2.6 miles	15
Coventry Estates	2.7 miles	15
Center	2.8 miles	15
Kings Mine	2.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057294. 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.