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Frederick, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45694. It lies in Sugar Camp Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.

Frederick within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frederick, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Frederick, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 sheets

Matched 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.

In the county-history sources

4,336 words on this township

A 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.

This township is well watered by small streams. The most important ones are Hale's Creek which rises in Jackson County and flows in a general southerly direction and empties into Pine Creek which waters the Eastern part of the Township. Frederick Creek waters the western part of the Township and empties into the Little Sciotp river. There is not much bottom land in the Frederick Valley, but the hills bordering on its banks are famous the world over for the immense banks of fire clay in them.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

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.

Read the whole chapter on Bloom Township.

Fires near this place

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Frederick between 1998 and 2020, burning about 291 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15223
26 August 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15785
3 June 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 144 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 144 specimens collected within 10 miles of Frederick between 1898 and 1975: 87 Fungi, 46 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ahles, H.E., Aschinger, H. (Henry), Bryant, J. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Polyporus semipileatus PeckPolyporus semipileatus Peck1928Walter PhillipsMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.CurtisTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1928G. T. JonesMill Hollow
A photograph of the species Planesticus Bonaparte, not of this specimenPlanesticus Bonaparte, 18541898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sphyrapicus varius, not of this specimenSphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sitta canadensis, not of this specimenSitta canadensis Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Alternaria Nees, not of this specimenAlternaria Nees1919Ricker A. J.Wheelersburg

All 144 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Frederick: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sciotoville ClayIron, Aluminum, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence1861
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frederick in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Heavy RainFrederick$1,000High water was across Frederick Road due to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Scioto County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Edmunds Switch1.0 miles12
Scioto Furnace1.1 miles12
Gephart1.9 miles12
Pinkerman1.9 miles12
Harrison Mills2.2 miles12
Egypt2.6 miles12
South Webster2.7 miles10
Ashley Corner2.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075878. 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.