BlockFrazeysburg, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43822. The Survey maps it on the Dresden quadrangle. 1,354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1910 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
On record in Frazeysburg
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 1 record
- Baughman Memorial Parklisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresFrazeysburg grew from 1,326 to 1,354 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,326 | |
| 2020 | 1,354 | +28 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
11,867 words on this township1794. History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The early settlers- of this township were allured thither by the fertilit}' of the lands in the valley of Wakatomika Creek ; like those who settled nearest the valley of the Muskingum. It is true that the area of perhaps twenty-five miles, on either side of the latter stream, is included in the term, "Valley of the Muskingum ; " and yet the smaller valleys have afforded special attractions to the settler. Actuated bjr the motive to make a paradise wherever nature invited them, the settlers, therefore, selected sites as near to the streams of importance as seemed good to them. Among the pioneers in this region. Colonel William Blizzard came in 1815, and settled in the southwest portion of section twelve, where he found an Eden in a log cabin. It is needless to describe this abode, the probability is that there was no departure from the conventional character of it, and being "wind and weather tight, " it fulfilled the purpose, happiness being the outgrowth of contentment, and conjugal fidelity, and these were found whereever nature bade them welcome, as she did in those fertile valleys, and the outspreading branches of her glorious forests. W. T. Blizzard now occupies the old homestead. During this year, also, William McClintock came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, and settled on what is now known as the Zanesville road, in the .southeast corner of the corporate limits of Frazeysburgh, as known to-day. This house was occupied, in 1880, by I. C. Franks, and has undergone the modernizing of many another log house, by being weather boarded. During this year, also, came Thomas Wilkins, and built his cabin in the extreme southeast corner -of the township ; the land, in 1880, was owned by James McCann. Aloout the close of this year, in the early part of 1816, Joshua Bennett, (sonin-law of Samuel Mendenhall), came from Virginia, and settled on tlie tract that Mr. Mendenhall had occupied in 1811 ; and in 1816, he found himself on the high road to fortune, h.iving a farm of virgin soil amid an ambrosial atmosphere, to inspire him to labor. Richard Menden- hall, (father of Dr. Mendenhall, of Frazeysburgh), was one of the pioneers who left his impress on his times, and an honored name ; he occupied a small log house within a mile of the town of today, to the westward ; he died in 1871. About this time, also, Mr.Tushman, a German, a quiet plodding man, whose practical turn enabled him to live in an obscure manner, occupied a tract on the border of the township, in the northeast portion, now occupied by John Riley. Tushman's first successor was John Lobe. Joseph Chaney was another of that period, and settled about three miles north of Frazeysburgh.
Passage source: 1794. History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882.
Samuel Mendenhall came into this township, from Virginia, in 1811, and entered one thousand three hundred acres of land. He built his cabin about one and a quarter miles wesi of the site of Frazeysburgh of to-day, and, in 1819, he built the first saw and grist mill in the township, located on Wakatomika creek, half a mile above the site occupied by Eli Gorley's sawmill in 1880. George Stamets (father of E. P. Stamets) lived in this mill, with his family, and was the miller for a number of years. Richard Griffee served as miller in this establishment, also. This mill had all the grinding to do that was done, in this and surrounding townships, for many years, and it was astonishing that two run of buhrs could do so much. The dam was washed away in 1830. At this time, John Norris was the miller.
Passage source: 1794. History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882.
About 1825, in the extreme northwest corner of the township, there was a rude saw and grist mill, that passed through many hands, and finally disappeared, in 1880. For some years prior to its destruction; a woolen mill was said to have been operated on the premises.
Passage source: 1794. 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.
Read the whole chapter on Jackson Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.
Fires near this place
45 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Frazeysburg between 2011 and 2020, burning about 140 acres in total. None 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 | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9047 |
| 27 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9045 |
| 16 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1842 |
| 3 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8628 |
| 5 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1841 |
| 12 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15744 |
| 19 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8307 |
| 17 May 2012 | 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
12 of 154 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 154 specimens collected within 10 miles of Frazeysburg between 1866 and 1974: 97 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Andreas, Barbara; Cusick, Allison, Bogue, E.E. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. | 1893 | Jones, H.L. | Toboso |
 | Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Trinway |
 | Synchytrium decipiens (Farl.) Farl. | 1931 | E. B. Mains | |
| Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray | 1866 | Day, D.F. | Dresden | |
 | Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr. | 1894 | Bogue, E.E. | Black Hand |
 | Lysimachia quadriflora Sims | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
 | Smilax herbacea L. | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
| Hebata esuma (Goding, 1890) | 1917 | not recorded | ||
 | Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township |
 | Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township |
 | Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Trinway, Cass Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio |
 | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Frazeysburg, Jackson Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio |
All 154 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Frazeysburg: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frazeysburg Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Frazeysburg Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Jones Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jones Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Black Run | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Nashport | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Irville | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Wakatomika (historical) | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Dresden | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Lower Dresden | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Claypools (historical) | 6.0 miles | 11 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Frazeysburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2608161 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064677. 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.