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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Frost, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45723. It stands on Lead Run. The Survey maps it on the Cutler quadrangle.

Frost within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frost, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Frost, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires nearby

17 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Frost between 2006 and 2020, burning about 52 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15150
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15139
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7290
27 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2020Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15530
21 March 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 160 shown

Museums hold 160 specimens collected within 10 miles of Frost between 1831 and 1975: 148 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, Beckman, J.M., C. H. Jones 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 Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt.Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt.1934Beckman, J.M.Middle fork of Shade River, "Fossil Creek"
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Cynips Linnaeus, not of this specimenCynips Linnaeus, 17581928A. C. KinseyCoolville
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, not of this specimenGyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1931Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Fairfield Twp., Washington Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus eleutherus, not of this specimenNoturus eleutherus Jordan, 18771932Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Shurrager, P.Hocking River, near Guysville, ~2.2 mi SW of Stewart, Rome township
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township

All 160 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Frost in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFrost$3,000Numerous trees were blown down and laid along State Route 144.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFrost$2,000A power line was downed by a falling tree.
November 2017Flash FloodFrost$2,000Flooding along Jordan Run and Frost Run closed State Route 144 in both directions between US 50 and State Route 329 north of Coolville.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindFrost$1,500Near the community of Frost, a tree down blew down onto power lines and caught on fire.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Beebe2.9 miles13
Ireland3.4 miles13
Stewart4.1 miles14
Coolville4.2 miles14
Cole4.3 miles14
Lottridge5.0 miles13
Torch5.0 miles16
Guysville5.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064690. 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.