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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.

Dell within Washington County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Dell, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Dell, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Newport township, in the words of 1902.

1902, Newport Township

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.

Read the rest of this passage

In the 1902 county history

23,474 words on this township

The 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 2001

The 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
30 August 2012Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - CYTEC
30 August 2012Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - MON POWER
10 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestSEVEN
3 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestMT. PISGAH
13 April 2018Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14565
22 March 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryALLEGHENY POWER PLANT
19 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14785
19 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14566

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,142 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.1923W.G. StonerMarietta
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1932C. MayMarietta
Specimen of Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.1932L.W.R.J.Nursery, Marietta
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1853E. AndrewsMarietta, Ohio
A photograph of the species Actinonaias carinata, not of this specimenActinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1879W. HoldenOhio River, Near Marietta
A photograph of the species Necturus maculosus, not of this specimenNecturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)1886Georg BaurMarietta
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Shufeldt, R.Marietta
A photograph of the species Progne subis, not of this specimenProgne subis (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Shufeldt, R.Marietta
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1896A. D. SelbyRainbow.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1896F.L. StevensMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias kleiniana, not of this specimenCyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta

All 1,142 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Duckworth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Union Carbide/ Marietta, OhioIron, ManganeseProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms nearby

2 since 2017

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDell$5,000Several trees were blown down along State Route 26 between mile markers 6 and 17 east of Marietta.
November 2017FloodDell-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.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Hills1.4 miles19
Cornerville1.5 miles19
Yankeeburg2.3 miles19
Sitka2.6 miles19
Sandhill2.8 miles17
Caywood3.4 miles17
Reno3.4 miles17
Cow Run3.5 miles19

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.