Elliott Crossroads, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Homer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43728. The Survey maps it on the Ringgold quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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 Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
3 since 2014The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Elliott Crossroads between 2014 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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 | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15255 |
| 3 May 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | EAST |
| 30 October 2016 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5929 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 314 shownMuseums hold 314 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elliott Crossroads between 1887 and 1973: 279 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cercis canadensis L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Gleditsia triacanthos L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
![]() | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
![]() | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
![]() | Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr. | 1908 | Coker W. C. | Chapel Hill |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1911 | B.R. Bales | Ringgold |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | MCCONNELSVILLE |
All 314 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountville | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Westland | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Rosseau | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Shilling (historical) | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Wrightstown | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Joy | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Vicksville | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Ringgold | 4.5 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075802. 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.
























