Derwent, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43733. It stands on Seneca Fork Wills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Byesville quadrangle. It stands 804 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1911 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byesville 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 Byesville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
36 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Derwent between 2009 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8805 |
| 31 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1623 |
| 5 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15665 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 295 shownMuseums hold 295 specimens collected within 10 miles of Derwent between 1875 and 1975: 133 Fungi, 102 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis. | 1902 | F.O. Grover | Black Swamp |
![]() | Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Enslenia albida Nutt. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Impatiens pallida Nutt. | 1875 | Lloyd, Curtis Gates | Fairmont |
![]() | Stereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél. | 1893 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
| Favolus europaeus Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill | |
![]() | Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Pleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Polystictus versicolor (L.) Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
All 295 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
5 since 1998The National Weather Service names Derwent in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Derwent | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew several large trees and power lines down. One tree fell onto a house trailer. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Derwent | $2,000 | Wills Creek was in minor flood due ice jams and rainfall, causing flooding of low lying areas near Derwent. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Derwent | - | Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Pleasant City. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Derwent | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Derwent | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant City | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Buffalo | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Fairview | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Lucasburg | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Robins | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Walhonding | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bluebell | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Byesville | 3.2 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Derwent | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5263321 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064534. 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.
























