Elizabeth, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Newton Township. It stands on Thompson Run. The Survey maps it on the Zanesville West quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1910 against another survey:
On record in Elizabeth
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Five Mile Houselisted 1977 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed 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 Zanesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Zanesville West quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
6,439 words on this townshipHistory of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Newton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
William Rankin and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, parents of George Rankin, of Newtonville, came from Ireland,.and settled near the town of later period, in 1820. That they were lured to come by the glowing descriptions of their American Paradise, is not improbable, as perhaps no re- and to this he added the enthusiastic admiration for American freedom which thrills, especially, those who have once known the absence of it in their natal home. But it is more likely that their affection for their children, whom they followed to this country, dominated every other sentiment. And this whole-heartedness soon made him popular in his new home, where, in 1830, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and filled that office several terms. He died in 1848, at the advanced age of eighty. His widow and sons, Grafton and Charles, moved to Barnesville, where she died.
Passage source: History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
21 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Elizabeth between 2012 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2969 |
| 12 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2971 |
| 27 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1641 |
| 7 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15490 |
| 31 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2013 | 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 near this place
12 of 699 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 699 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elizabeth between 1873 and 1973: 638 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. M., Adams, William 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Scleroderris rubra Morgan | 1891 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston |
![]() | Peziza nana Massee & Morgan | 1895 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston |
![]() | Frullania saxicola Austin | 1896 | William C. Werner | |
![]() | Poa cuspidata Nutt. | 1873 | W. M. Canby | Zanesville. |
![]() | Frullania eboracensis Lehm. | 1890 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Porella pinnata L. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Fissidens adianthoides Hedw. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | Fultonham |
![]() | Lycogala exiguum Morgan, 1893 | 1893 | Morgan A.P. | Preston |
![]() | Lachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan | 1905 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston |
![]() | Peziza morganii Massee | 1905 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage). |
| Tapesia derelicta Morgan | 1905 | Morgan, Andrew Price | Preston |
All 699 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Elizabeth: 7 producers, 4 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Plant Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Salt Creek Materials Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Chesterhill Stone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Chesterhill Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Hammer Number 2 Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hammer Number 2 Clay Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Johnathan Mine | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jonathan Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Jonathan Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Sidwell Brothers Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avondale | 0.3 miles | 13 | |
| Southern Hills | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| Moxahala Park | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lewis (historical) | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Roberts (historical) | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Roberts | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Darlington | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| White Cottage | 1.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064609. 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.


















