BlockDudley, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Olive Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. It stands on Elk Run. The Survey maps it on the Caldwell South quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 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
10 surveys from 13 printed 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.
- 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Caldwell South quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,932 words on this townshipHistory of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Olive Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Captain Simeon Blake was one of the earliest settlers in the valley. He was a native of Maine, and one of the early immignints to the West. He served in General Wayne's expedition against the- Indians in 1794-5. He lived near where Dudley now is.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Silas Thorla and Dennis Gibbs were the first justices of the peace in Olive Township, Morgan County. They were commissioned August is, 1810. Thorla resigned September 4, 1821; Gibbs served until the expiration of his term. The early townshij) elections were held at Gibbs' house, near the present site of Dudley.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Dennis Gibbs was among the earliest settlers and most prominent citizens of the township. In 1819 he was justice of the peace, and from 1821 to 1826 he was one of the commissioners of Morgan County. He was a native of Cape Cod, Mass., and came to Olive Township in IS 14, settling three miles south of CaUlwell. He was a carpenter by trade, and coming to Ohio without means, was obliged to leave his wife and two small children alone at home and go to distant points to work at his trade to obtain money wMth which to pay for his hmd. His industry and good management enabled him to secure a competency, in spite of many drawbacks and hardships. His wife was Mary Dudley, wiio was born in Maine, of Quaker parentage. Of their children, only two are now living in Noble County - Mi-s Julia Tilton and Judge Dennis S. Gibbs. Dennis (iii)bs removed to Lowell, Washington County, where he died in 1S72, at the age of eighty -two. He was originally a Whig, but became a zealous abolitionist and one of the projectors and managers of the Underground railroad. In religion he was first a Methodist; and afterwards became a member of the Christian church and a preacher of that denomination. His house w^as the meeting-place for the early Methodists of the township. Dennis Gibbs built and operated the first carding mill in this section. In company with others he heli)ed to build the first school-house in the neighlx-rhood.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Olive Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.
Fires near this place
8 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Dudley between 2009 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4965 |
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13585 |
| 25 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7531 |
| 26 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7069 |
| 17 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7065 |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16016 |
| 31 January 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 108 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 108 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dudley between 1884 and 1974: 69 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Trillium sessile L. | 1884 | not recorded | Macksburg |
 | Colletotrichum trifolii Bain | 1911 | Scarberry J. J. | MACKSBURG |
 | Erysiphe polygoni DC. | 1912 | E. Bartholomew | Caldwell |
 | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
 | Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio |
 | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
 | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
 | Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township |
 | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township |
 | Notropis volucellus (Cope, 1865) | 1929 | MB Trautman & ass't. | Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp. |
 | Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 1881 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
 | Percina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
All 108 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 Dudley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merrill Brothers Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dudley in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Forks | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| South Olive | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Ashton | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Moundsville | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Caldwell | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Dexter City | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Sharon | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Florence | 4.1 miles | 13 |
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 Dudley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22033987 | 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 1064560. 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.