Dungannon, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44423. The Survey maps it on the Kensington quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
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.
- 1905 USGS Salineville 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 Kensington quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
613 words on this townshipHistory of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Hanover Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The following physicians are practicing in the township : at Dungannon, Dr. Patterson, who commenced practice in 1870; at Hanover, Dr. J. Yates, who studied with Dr. Robertson, and was one year at Salineville, and commenced practice in 1843; Dr. Samuel J. Hole, who began practice in Hanover in 1867 ; Dr. A. Battin, who opened an office in 1858 ; Dr. S. S. Robertson, who began practice in 1857 ; soon afterwards went West, and returned to Hanover in 1871; was in practice at Salineville from 1861 to 1867 or 1868; at New Garden, Dr. A. Teegarden, who has practiced in that place since 1869.
Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.
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 Hanover Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
16 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dungannon between 2003 and 2019, burning about 136 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1101 |
| 2 May 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1441 |
| 9 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIANA |
| 10 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 506 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 506 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dungannon between 1878 and 1975: 301 Animalia, 195 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Mac Gillivroy, Adler, K. K., Albert Peyron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
![]() | Polyporus galactinus Berk. | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
![]() | Stropharia semiglobata (Batsch) Quél. | 1917 | Overholts | Elkton |
![]() | Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1878 | Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman | Ohio Valley |
![]() | Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763) | 1889 | A. D. Mac Gillivroy | Salineville |
![]() | Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793) | 1889 | not recorded | Salineville |
| Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840) | 1891 | not recorded | ||
| Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864) | 1892 | unknown | Salineville | |
![]() | Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773) | 1892 | not recorded | Salineville |
| Megachile mendica Cresson, 1878 | 1892 | unknown | Salineville | |
![]() | Viola L. | 1897 | Holzinger, J.M. | Winona County. |
![]() | Plantago rugelii Decne. | 1899 | Shafer, J.A. | Lisbon |
All 506 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 Dungannon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summitville Tiles Inc Shale Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dungannon in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dungannon | $8,000 | Local 911 center reported numerous trees down between Hanoverton and Summitville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millport | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hanoverton | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Summitville | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Guilford | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Guilford Lake Estates | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Kensington | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Gavers | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Guilford Lake | 4.4 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 Dungannon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19881070 | 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 1064567. 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.






















