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

Doanville, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45764. It lies in Coe Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Nelsonville quadrangle.

Doanville within Athens County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Doanville, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Doanville, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

93 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Doanville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. 2 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	38
Recreation and ceremony	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	180
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BYERS RD
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	SNAKE HOLLOW
19 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	ARCHERS FORK FIRE
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	MONK RD FIRE
20 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	LOOP
9 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,072 shown

Museums hold 1,072 specimens collected within 10 miles of Doanville between 1896 and 1975: 912 Animalia, 111 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood	1898	Selby, A.D.	Palos
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens
Erasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)	1905	not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)	1905	H.T. Osborn

All 1,072 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Doanville: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Nutter Brothers Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nutter Brothers Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gravel Plant 2 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Gravel Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lake Hope Asphalt S&G Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Nelsonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Nelsonville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Athens County

Storms nearby

2 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Doanville in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 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
March 2008	Flood	Doanville	$2,000	Small streams flooded roads by mid morning on the 4th. Federal Creek, Hewett Fork, Hamily Run and Greens Run were some of the streams. Later, the Hocking River at Athens crested at 20.3 feet early on the 6th, just over the 20 foot flood stage.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Doanville	$1,500	A downed tree and power lines were observed along Happy Hollow Road.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kimberly	1.4 miles	21
New Floodwood	1.5 miles	21
Buchtel	1.9 miles	21
Bessemer	2.1 miles	21
Glen Ebon	2.1 miles	21
Nelsonville	2.7 miles	21
Hamley Run	2.8 miles	21
Connett	3.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075724. 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.