Duncanwood, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Short Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43907. The Survey maps it on the Harrisville quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 81 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
17 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.
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
5 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Duncanwood between 2013 and 2019, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 April 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15188 |
| 19 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 981 |
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10926 |
| 10 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4005 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 39 shownMuseums hold 39 specimens collected within 10 miles of Duncanwood between 1889 and 1971: 30 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Fink, B., H. Waters 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ulmus americana L. | 1908 | Fink, B. | USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison |
![]() | Uncinula macrospora Peck | 1908 | Fink, B. | USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison |
![]() | Oxalis stricta L. | 1889 | L. Dickerson | |
![]() | Sinapis arvensis L. | 1889 | L. Dickerson | |
![]() | Solanum emulans Raf. | 1889 | L. Dickerson | |
![]() | Pseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc. | 1908 | not recorded | Cadiz |
| Halictidae | 1925 | Pallister, J. C. (John C.) | Harrisville, Ohio | |
| Syrphidae | 1925 | Pallister, J. C. (John C.) | Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA | |
![]() | Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township |
| Cyprinidae | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Brushy Fork, no more precise locality data, 3.6 miles southwest of Cadiz OH, Cadiz Township | |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township |
![]() | Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township |
All 39 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Duncanwood: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Div. Limestone Plant No. 13 | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Limestone Plant & Mine Consol | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammond Crossroad | 1.0 miles | 17 | |
| Georgetown | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Newtown (historical) | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Science Hill | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| New Athens | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Horton | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Harrisville | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Hagan Addition | 3.6 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122569149 | 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 1062737. 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.

























