Durant, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43756. It stands on Big Bottom Run. The Survey maps it on the Philo quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 84 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
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.
- 1910 USGS Philo quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Philo quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Philo quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Philo quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Philo quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Philo quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Philo quadrangle1:24000
In the 1880 county history
225 words on this townshipThe county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Bloom Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Bloom Township - 225 words.
Fires nearby
7 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Durant between 2012 and 2014, burning about 16 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 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 November 2012 | 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 nearby
12 of 190 shownMuseums hold 190 specimens collected within 10 miles of Durant between 1887 and 1974: 161 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cercis canadensis L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Gleditsia triacanthos L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
| Leskea obscura Hedw. | 1896 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
![]() | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
![]() | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | MCCONNELSVILLE |
| Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915) | 1927 | F. N. | McConnelsville | |
![]() | Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
| Bezzia Kieffer, 1899 | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville | |
![]() | Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911 | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
All 190 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
7 since 2008The National Weather Service names Durant in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 flood, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Flood | Durant | $10,000 | The Muskingum River gauge at McConnelsville rose above its flood stage on the afternoon of April 2nd. The river eventually crested to around 13 feet the next morning, and then returned below flood stage the morning of the 4th. Several homes and businesses in the McConnelsville observed minor flooding during this time, in addition to high water issues that arose on State Route 376 and Route 669. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Durant | $10,000 | The Muskingum River flooded near McConnelsville, causing high water along Routes 60 and 669. The neighborhood along Cottonwood Drive also experienced some minor flooding.||The river gage on the Muskingum at McConnelsville showed the river rose above its 11 foot flood stage late on the 7th. It crested at 11.5 feet just after midnight on the 8th, and returned to its banks mid morning. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durant | $1,500 | Power outages were observed in the area of Durant due to downed trees and power lines. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durant | $1,000 | Trees were blown down on County Route 9. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Durant | $1,000 | Small streams, such as Meigs Creek, flooded roads. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durant | $500 | A tree fell across the road in Durant. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Durant | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagleport | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rokeby Lock | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Triadelphia | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Airington (historical) | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Joetown | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Halls Valley (historical) | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Deavertown | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Rowland (historical) | 7.4 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048671. 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.
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.






















