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Dunham, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dunham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45714. It stands on East Branch Little Hocking River. The Survey maps it on the Little Hocking quadrangle.

Dunham within Washington County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dunham, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Dunham, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

8,448 words on this township

History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Dunham Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

ON THE fifth of June, 1855, the tract of territory three miles wide and eight miles long, bounded on the north by Warren and Barlow, on the east by the Ohio, on the south by Belpre, and on the west by Decatur and Fairfield, was established by the county commissioners an independent township, with corporate powers. On the petition of William P. Cutler, Dean Briggs and others, the boundary line between Warren and Dunham was changed and established as it now exists, October 19, 1855.

Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.

Along the river the hills are high and abrupt, presenting heavy sandstone ledges. The wide and fertile valley of the Little Hocking runs in a southwesterly direction through the centre of the township. The western end of the territory is drained by the Little East branch of the Hocking. The northern branches of Congress creek carry off the waters of the southwest part. The streams which empty into the Ohio are short and small. The same seam of coal found in Belpre, Fairfield and Warren, is found in Dunham. Its black stain can be seen in many places in the township. 'There are in places well defined strata of limestone, and some of the shales contain limestone in small concretions. Wherever these limestone concretions occur, the soil produces abundant crops. Sandstone is the characteristic rock of the hills. Large quarries have been opened along the river and in the northern part of the township, on both sides of the Little Hocking valley. The body of this rock is of excellent quality for building purposes, and the selected stone makes superior grindstones. Many of these hills were once covered with yellow pines, a tree that thrives only on highly silicious soil. The Creek valley was a dense forest of chestnut, oak and hickory - the productions of shale and limestone land. This township possessed two important natural sources of wealth, exhaustless ledges of the finest sandstone, and an abundant and valuable growth of timber. The development of the stone industry has only commenced. The forest has almost entirely passed away, the best of it in the form of barrels and casks.

Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.

This township is located in that portion of the Ohio company's purchase, which was laid out in one hundred and sixty acre lots. The ministerial section of township one, range nine, and township two, range ten, and also school section sixteen, of township two, range ten, and Congress reservation, section eleven, of township two, range ten, are included within the limits of the legal township of Dunham. Little Hocking creek flows through Congress section eleven, and school section sixteen. The ministerial sections are at the opposite ends of the township.

Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.

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 Dunham Township - it names this place 35 more 35 times.

Fires near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Dunham between 2001 and 2019, burning about 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 April 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry17TH STREET
14 April 2018Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry873 RIVER HILL ROAD
8 March 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPARKERSBURG COUNTRY CLUB
24 March 2017Smoking3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7666
27 February 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15106
21 February 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry152 HIGHLAND LAKE TERRACE
28 October 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5906
10 October 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBLENNERHASSETT ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 278 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 278 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dunham between 1877 and 1970: 145 Fungi, 112 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AGOSTINI, CHARLES T, Archer W. A., Archer, W. A. 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
Specimen of Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1922E. Bartholomew
Specimen of Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1937Blickle, A.H.Parkersburg
Specimen of Petrova houseri Miller, 1959Petrova houseri Miller, 19591954W. MillerVeto
A photograph of the species Inula helenium, not of this specimenInula helenium L.1877Guttenberg, G.Parkersburg
A photograph of the species Sonchus asper, not of this specimenSonchus asper (L.) Hill1877Guttenberg, G.Parkersburg
A photograph of the species Amaranthus spinosus, not of this specimenAmaranthus spinosus L.1878Guttenberg, G.Parkersburg
A photograph of the species Clinopodium vulgare, not of this specimenClinopodium vulgare L.1878Guttenberg, G.*Parkersburg
A photograph of the species Scutellaria nervosa, not of this specimenScutellaria nervosa Pursh1878Guttenberg, G.Parkersburg
A photograph of the species Rorippa palustris, not of this specimenRorippa palustris var. fernaldiana (Butters & Abbe) Stuckey1891C. F. MillspaughParkersburg.
A photograph of the species Uromyces asclepiadis, not of this specimenUromyces asclepiadis Cooke1902W. A. KellermanBelpre
A photograph of the species Botryosphaeria ribis, not of this specimenBotryosphaeria ribis Grossenb. & Duggar1927Shear C. L.Parkersburg
Coniothyrium Corda, 18401927Martin G. HamiltonParkersburg

All 278 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dunham: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Atlas PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
K. S. Crane No. 1 & K. S. HoistSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mill Boat and K.S. Hoist PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ohio River Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunham in 1 storm report between 1998 and 1998: 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
April 1998HailDunham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Veto2.4 miles17
Corner2.5 miles17
Vincent3.6 miles16
Blennerhassett View3.8 miles19
Porterfield3.8 miles17
Rockland3.9 miles19
Constitution4.0 miles19
Fleming4.0 miles16

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 DunhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133351The 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 1062739. 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.