Edmunds Switch, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45682. It lies in Railroad Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1911 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
In the 1903 county history
4,336 words on this townshipThe county history of 1903 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 - 4,336 words.
Fires nearby
47 since 1998The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Edmunds Switch between 1998 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15785 |
| 3 June 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | SUPERIOR 3 |
| 24 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 139 shownMuseums hold 139 specimens collected within 10 miles of Edmunds Switch between 1898 and 1975: 87 Fungi, 45 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aschinger, H. (Henry), Bryant, J., Bryant, J.C. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Polyporus semipileatus Peck | 1928 | Walter Phillips | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1928 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow |
![]() | Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854 | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1899 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | South Webster, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Alternaria Nees | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | Wheelersburg |
All 139 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Edmunds Switch: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonclay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sciotoville Clay | Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium | Occurrence | 1861 | |
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 2015The National Weather Service names Edmunds Switch in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scioto Furnace | 0.7 miles | 12 | |
| Frederick | 1.0 miles | 12 | |
| South Webster | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Pinkerman | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Gephart | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Ashley Corner | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Harrison Mills | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Egypt | 3.3 miles | 12 |
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 Q122538918 | 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 1075781. 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.























