Dell, Ohio
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Newport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45773. It stands on Eightmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1904 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Newport township, in the words of 1902.
The Drowning Of Charles Haskell
The drowning of Charles Haskell is perhaps the most remarkable and the saddest case of this kind on record. Charles Haskell was, at the time of his tragic death, a respected citizen and a prominent member of the Baptist church. He resided near the river where he had his store. Saturday, July 23, 1831, he observed that some boats that he had secured to the Ohio shore were being blown by the wind towards the Virginia side.
In the 1902 county history
23,474 words on this townshipThe county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Newport Township covers scenery, blennerhassett's visit to mt. dudley, fruit-raising, newell's run uplift, coal banks, deserted derricks.
Read the chapter on Newport Township - 23,474 words.
Fires nearby
16 since 2001The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dell between 2001 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - CYTEC |
| 30 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - MON POWER |
| 10 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SEVEN |
| 3 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | MT. PISGAH |
| 13 April 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14565 |
| 22 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | ALLEGHENY POWER PLANT |
| 19 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14785 |
| 19 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14566 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,142 shownMuseums hold 1,142 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dell between 1853 and 1975: 1,051 Animalia, 54 Fungi, 35 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr. | 1923 | W.G. Stoner | Marietta |
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1932 | C. May | Marietta |
![]() | Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers. | 1932 | L.W.R.J. | Nursery, Marietta |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1853 | E. Andrews | Marietta, Ohio |
![]() | Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900) | 1879 | W. Holden | Ohio River, Near Marietta |
![]() | Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1886 | Georg Baur | Marietta |
![]() | Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Shufeldt, R. | Marietta |
![]() | Progne subis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Shufeldt, R. | Marietta |
![]() | Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1896 | A. D. Selby | Rainbow. |
![]() | Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | Marietta |
![]() | Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852) | 1897 | Sterki, Victor | Marietta |
![]() | Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1897 | Sterki, Victor | Marietta |
All 1,142 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dell: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duckworth Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Union Carbide/ Marietta, Ohio | Iron, Manganese | Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 2017The National Weather Service names Dell in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2021: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dell | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down along State Route 26 between mile markers 6 and 17 east of Marietta. |
| November 2017 | Flood | Dell | - | Following flash flooding in the morning, water levels were slow to recede on small creeks and streams through the day. As the water drained through the system, flooding also occurred on at Macksburg on the West Fork of Duck Creek, on the Duck Creek at Whipple, and on the Little Muskingum River at Bloomfield. The gauges at each of these locations topped out at 1-2 feet above bankfull during the afternoon, and receded below bankfull through the overnight or early morning on the 7th.||Sections of State Route 26 were closed due to high water near both Duck Creek and the Little Muskingum River. Also parts of State Routes 145 and 821 were under water along the Little Muskingum. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hills | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Cornerville | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Yankeeburg | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Sitka | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Sandhill | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Caywood | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Reno | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Cow Run | 3.5 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062729. 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.






























