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

Crestview Park, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Porter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45694. It stands on Sun Hill. The Survey maps it on the Wheelersburg quadrangle.

Crestview Park within Scioto County

Then and now

1926 to 2002

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 Crestview Park, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Crestview Park, surveyed 1926

Compare 1926 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

7,364 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 Porter Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Porter Township - 7,364 words.

Fires nearby

117 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Crestview Park between 1997 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5485
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1821
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8765
21 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13285
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15223
30 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15823

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 619 shown

Museums hold 619 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crestview Park between 1884 and 1975: 557 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Ahles, H.E., Anson A. Hinkley 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884H. MoresScioto River
Specimen of Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291896not recordedScioto River
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Campeloma Rafinesque, not of this specimenCampeloma Rafinesque, 18191885Ch. R. OrcuttScioto River
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
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
A photograph of the species Sympetrum Newman, not of this specimenSympetrum Newman, 18331897J. HinePortsmouth
A photograph of the species Sympetrum obtrusum, not of this specimenSympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)1897J. HinePortsmouth
Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Planesticus Bonaparte, not of this specimenPlanesticus Bonaparte, 18541898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA

All 619 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Crestview Park: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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
Cyclops Corp/ New Boston, OhioIronProducer
River Creek Clay BedClayProspect
Sciotoville ClayIron, Aluminum, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence1861
Blair QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frankfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Wheelersburg1.1 miles16
Sciotodale1.6 miles12
Slocum1.6 miles12
Slocum Heights1.9 miles12
Happy Hours Addition2.2 miles12
Camp Bennett2.2 miles12
Highland Bend2.4 miles12
Rigrish Addition2.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2568279. 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.