Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Egypt, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Kirkwood Township. It stands on Spencer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle.

Egypt within Belmont County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Egypt, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Egypt, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Kirkwood township, in the words of 1903.

1903, Kirkwood Township

The Only Execution In A Century

One of the most exciting incidents in the history of Kirkwood township was the murder of Louisa Fox, in 1869, by a notorious character named Thomas L3. Carr, a coal miner in the employ of Alexander Hunter. Carr was a man of had repute, who had become infatuated with the beauty of the girl - for she was but 14 years of age - and because she refused to marry him, he inhumanely took the innocent's life.

Read the rest of this passage

In the 1903 county history

3,926 words on this township

The 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 Kirkwood Township covers the first settlers, the stillwater valley, distinguished citizens, the only execution in a century, the population and township officials, kirkwood coal lands.

Read the chapter on Kirkwood Township - 3,926 words.

Fires nearby

7 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Egypt between 2002 and 2019, burning about 39 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15232
6 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 171 shown

Museums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Egypt between 1884 and 1975: 116 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1884	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J.	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	2 miles south-east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	1/2 mile east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	1/2 mi east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hendrysburg	2.9 miles	13
Morristown	3.2 miles	12
Reynolds Road Cottage Area	3.9 miles	14
Golda	3.9 miles	14
Rock Hill	3.9 miles	13
Olivett	4.4 miles	13
Badgertown	4.5 miles	12
Sewellsville	4.6 miles	13

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 Egypt	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133727	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 1064606. 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.