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

Danville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45741. The Survey maps it on the Wilkesville quadrangle.

Danville within Meigs County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Danville, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Danville, surveyed 1905

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.

Fires nearby

25 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Danville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 152 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6

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
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6060
7 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1183
21 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8287
1 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4265
7 March 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 146 shown

Museums hold 146 specimens collected within 10 miles of Danville between 1862 and 1961: 113 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. Mote 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
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1862W. M. CanbyCheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Lenzites trabeus, not of this specimenLenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1905Ricker P. L.Bidwell
A photograph of the species Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp

All 146 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2001

The National Weather Service names Danville in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
May 2001Tornado (F1)Danville$400,000An intermittent damage path, as the tornado mostly affected trees along hill tops. A house was damaged in Hanesville, when a large maple tree fell onto it. A carport and a barn were also destroyed at the same residence, In fact, the carport traveled some 75 yards before landing across the road. In Danville, pieces of wood were launched into the side of a bus garage building. A corn crib was leveled.
December 2019FloodDanville$6,000Leading Creek flooded, closing State Route 124 between Route 7 and 325. State Route 773 was closed between Route 7 and 883 due to flooding on Forest Run and Kerr Run.||The Shade River also flooded. The river gage near Chester showed the river rose above its 17 foot bankfull level just before midnight on the 16th. The river crested just under 21 feet late on the 17th, and returned to its banks around noon on the 18th. This flooded the Sugar Run Creek Bridge.
February 2025Flash FloodDanville-Route 325 was closed due to flooding at Malloons Creek near Briar Ridge Road.
April 2025FloodDanville-Route 143, Route, 124, Route 325, and Kingsbury Road were closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Salem Center2.1 miles12
Hanesville2.2 miles13
Langsville4.2 miles13
Buckhorn (historical)4.4 miles13
Dexter4.9 miles13
Martinsburg (historical)5.9 miles13
Rutland6.8 miles13
Dyesville7.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061014. 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.