Cranenest, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43793. It lies in Grant Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Antioch quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 97 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 New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
6 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cranenest between 2012 and 2019, burning about 12 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 | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2013 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4669 |
| 13 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13746 |
| 1 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 December 2012 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 November 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15332 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 387 shownMuseums hold 387 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cranenest between 1860 and 1975: 365 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Taphrina sacchari Jenkins | 1922 | O.L. Inman | Antioch College |
![]() | Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat. | 1924 | L.L. Lehman | |
![]() | Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | Herbert R. Mooney | Woodsfield |
![]() | Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | David M. Dennis | 3 mi. N Graysville |
| unnamed (fossil) | 1914 | Collector Unknown | Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest) | |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1921 | Ortmann, Arnold E | Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1922 | Thompson W. H. | Woodsfield |
| Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd. | 1928 | Archer, W. A. | Greenbrier | |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township |
![]() | Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township |
All 387 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Carrick | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| Griffith | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Altitude | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Laings | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Six Point | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Coats | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Woodsfield | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Plainview | 4.0 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075644. 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.


























