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Emerald, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Winchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45697. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 69 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
14 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.
- 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Winchester township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
David Sinton Pioneer Character Sketches 619
studied medicine with Dr. William B. Willson, and had qualified himself for a physician, when death cut him off in his early manhood. He had just begun the practice of medicine at the time of his death. One of David Sinton's sisters never left Ireland, but married there. His other sister, who came with the remainder of the family to this country, married John Sparks, the banker, and died at Union Landing of the cholera, in 1833.
In the county-history sources
463,438 words on this townshipA History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Winchester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In 1891, Mr. Connor was nominated by the Democrats in the Adams- Pike District for Representative in the Ohio Legislature, and although the district is largely Republican, was defeated by cMily thirty-nine votes. July 21, 1893, President Cleveland commissioned him postmaster of West Union, which position he held to the entire satisfaction of the community for four years and six months.
Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.
From 1883 to 1885, he was traveling in the West. On October 16, 1889, he was married to Miss Anna M. Juliand. Her ancestors came from Guilford, Connecticut, and her seventh great- grandfather was one of the founders of Yale College. They have two daughters, Margaret Huldah, aged tight years, and Dorothy, aged six years.
Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.
Alberta, bom January 8, 1853, died July 22, 1857; another daughter, Annabel, bom December 18, 1855, was married to John J. Cisco, November 2, t88i. They reside at Xenia, Ohio. Another daughter, Elizabeth P., bom July 11, 1858, married J. A. Renwick, January 13, 1883. He was pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Tranquility, about four years, but is now pastor of a church at Biggsville, 111., where he has been for eleven years. The youngest daughter, Emma Z., bom January 13, 1862, was married to the Rev. J. Knox Montgomery, December 25, 1889. He was pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Unity, and pastor at Sparta, 111., for about four years. For several years past he has been pastor of the United Presbyterian Church on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.
Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.
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 Winchester Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
12 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Emerald between 2004 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15625 |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 February 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
9 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 11 specimens collected within 10 miles of Emerald between 1928 and 1973: 10 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 9 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by D. L. Donaldson, Floyd Bartley, H. Price 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | West Fork Ohio Brush Creek, within Scott township, near Seaman, Scott township |
 | Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | Branch To Cherry Fork, at Harshasville, Oliver Township |
 | Enodia anthedon Clark, 1936 | 1939 | not recorded | Winchester |
 | Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890 | 1943 | H. Price | Six Mile Creek, Emerald Township |
 | Terrapene carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1947 | RICHARD KNOTTS | 3 MI S E OF MACON |
 | Ambystoma barbouri Kraus & Petranka, 1989 | 1963 | Ledgerwood, C. R., Bubaker, J. A. & Moore, F. J. (Frank J.) | 2 mi S of Adams Co. line on SR 247, Scott Twp, Adams Co., Ohio |
 | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1963 | Ledgerwood, C. R., Bubaker, J. A. & Moore, F. J. (Frank J.) | 2 mi S of Adams Co. line on SR 247, Scott Twp, Adams Co., Ohio |
| Cirriphyllum boscii (Schwägr.) Grout | 1967 | Floyd Bartley | Along Route 32 near Tranquilty. | |
| Polydesmida | 1973 | D. L. Donaldson | Winchester |
All 11 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emerald in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerald | $10,000 | Numerous trees were damaged along with some outbuildings. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emerald | $100 | Three 6 inch tree limbs were downed near Greenbrier Road and State Route 247. |
| May 2022 | Flash Flood | Emerald | - | A stream was out of its banks and flowing across a roadway. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winchester | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Buck Run (historical) | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion (historical) | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Leigh (historical) | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Seaman | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Jessup | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Irvington (historical) | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Tranquility | 7.1 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040186. 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.
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.