Deucher, Ohio
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It stands on Bell Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Raven Rock quadrangle.
Then and now
1906 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1906 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
20 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.
- 1906 USGS Saint Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Saint Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1975 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Independence township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Thomas Simms And His Captivity
About 1810 a man arrived, of adventurous and eventful history. When Thomas Simms was a boy of some eight years of age, living with his kindred near Wheeling, Virginia, the Indians attacked and massacred his grandfather, and several of the family to which he belonged, but spared his life. They took Thomas to what was called Sandusky plains, where they raised him in the ways of their tribe.
In the county-history sources
10,374 words on this townshipHistory of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Independence Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Little is known about this man or his family. He probably cleared the first land in the township, presumably above the mouth of the run. His settlement was either in the latter part of 1700 or first of 1800. His stay was short, for he moved away soon after burying his wife, Sarah, who died in 1804. She was buried in Grand View township near the line and the river. This, the first death in the township, was the origin of the first graveyard in the settlement.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
26 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Deucher between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | NEFF RIDGE |
| 27 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | DAVE DECKER FIRE |
| 8 May 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | KINDERHOOK |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | TUESDAY FIRE |
| 3 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | MT. PISGAH |
| 29 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BROAD RUN ROAD |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SYCAMORE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 253 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 253 specimens collected within 10 miles of Deucher between 1905 and 1975: 205 Animalia, 26 Fungi, 21 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew, E.A., Bartholomew, E.A.; Bumgarner, R., Bonner C. M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1941 | Meddles, O.; Steele, M. | Millwood Twp. From rich woods (lilly), along Putney Ridge between Quaker City and Salesville. |
| Alternaria solani Sorauer | 1905 | Post A. Lee | Long Reach | |
![]() | Cercospora canescens Ellis & G.Martin | 1905 | Johnson T. C. | Long Reach |
![]() | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1905 | Post A. L. | Long Reach |
![]() | Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni | 1905 | Post, A. L. | Long Reach |
![]() | Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter | 1905 | Johnson T. C. | Long Reach |
![]() | Puccinia dayi Clinton | 1909 | Bonner C. M. | Pleasants Co. |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry. |
![]() | Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
All 253 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Deucher: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason's House of Flint Mine | Gemstone | Producer | 1969 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archers Fork | 1.3 miles | 20 | |
| Wade | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Leith | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Shay | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Schley | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Ward (historical) | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Murphy | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Steel Run | 4.0 miles | 19 |
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 Deucher | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133349 | 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 1075706. 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.






























