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.
Then and now
1912 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,336 words on this townshipA 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.
Fires near this place
25 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5425 |
| 17 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 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 |
| 29 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | SUPERIOR 3 |
| 24 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.1 acres | Wayne National Forest | CRUM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 106 shownRegional 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 | 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 |
![]() | Inonotus dryadeus (Pers.) Murrill | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
All 106 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| South Webster Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | Flood | Eifort | - | State Route 140 was closed at the Scioto/Lawrence County line due to high water. |
| April 2014 | Heavy Rain | Eifort | - | Two state roads were closed due to high water in typically flooded low lying areas. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hales Creek | 1.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bloom Junction | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| South Webster | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Madland (historical) | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Edmunds Switch | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Pinkerman | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Scioto Furnace | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Frederick | 6.8 miles | 12 |
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.





















