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Eifort, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45682. It lies in Old Globe Hollow. The Survey maps it on the South Webster quadrangle.

Eifort within Scioto County

Then and now

1912 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Eifort, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Eifort, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

4,336 words on this township

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Bloom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Lime Coal Works at Eifort employ about 100 men; the brick plant at South Webster near 200 men and the Clay mines on Frederick 75 men; the Buckeye brick yard at Scioto Furnace 75 men and Bloom Furnace 100 men.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

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 Bloom Township.

Fires near this place

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Eifort between 2006 and 2019, burning about 230 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
30 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5425
17 June 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestSUPERIOR 3
24 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2013Arson/incendiarism6.1 acresWayne National ForestCRUM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 106 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 106 specimens collected within 10 miles of Eifort between 1898 and 1974: 84 Fungi, 18 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bryant, J., C. Stein, Collector unspecified 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 Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Polyporus semipileatus PeckPolyporus semipileatus Peck1928Walter PhillipsMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.CurtisTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1928G. T. JonesMill Hollow
A photograph of the species Planesticus Bonaparte, not of this specimenPlanesticus Bonaparte, 18541898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sphyrapicus varius, not of this specimenSphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sitta canadensis, not of this specimenSitta canadensis Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Inonotus dryadeus, not of this specimenInonotus dryadeus (Pers.) Murrill1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River

All 106 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eifort: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eifort in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
December 2019FloodEifort-State Route 140 was closed at the Scioto/Lawrence County line due to high water.
April 2014Heavy RainEifort-Two state roads were closed due to high water in typically flooded low lying areas.

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Hales Creek1.9 miles10
Bloom Junction2.8 miles10
South Webster4.2 miles10
Madland (historical)5.1 miles10
Edmunds Switch5.9 miles12
Pinkerman6.2 miles12
Scioto Furnace6.4 miles12
Frederick6.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075787. 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.