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Dungannon, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45715. It lies near Hibbs Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Lowell quadrangle.

Dungannon within Noble County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Dungannon, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Dungannon, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 printed 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.

In the county-history sources

7,237 words on this township

History 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 Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Dungannon, a projected village on section 80 of township 5, range 9, was laid out by Nathan II. Essex. George Bell made the survey June 17, 1850. The name of the " city " does not appear either on State or county maps, but the place survives as Ridge postoffice. A store is ke])t at this point by W. H. Maygiickin.

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 Jackson Township.

Fires near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Dungannon between 2008 and 2020, burning about 64 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1210
7 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13585
9 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15465
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources626
29 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15532
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 104 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 104 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dungannon between 1884 and 1974: 71 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by D M DENNIS, DAVID M SEVER, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884not recordedMacksburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus (Cope, 1865)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Olive Green Creek, trib. of the Muskingum River, Southern Center Twp.
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Pimephales vigilax, not of this specimenPimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township
A photograph of the species Pomoxis annularis, not of this specimenPomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township

All 104 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Guernsey Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dungannon in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDungannon$5,000Law enforcement reported a large tree down blocking the road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDungannon$1,000A member of the public reported that large limbs were blown down and the power was out along Coal Run Hill Road at the county line.
August 2019HailDungannon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Keith2.9 miles13
Crooked Tree4.2 miles13
Rich Valley4.7 miles13
Honesty5.0 miles13
Three Forks5.6 miles13
South Olive5.9 miles13
Moundsville6.0 miles13
Dexter City6.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064566. 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.