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.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The 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 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.
- 1904 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cutler quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cutler quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cutler quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Cutler quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Cutler quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
17 since 2006The 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15150 |
| 9 April 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15139 |
| 15 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7290 |
| 27 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15530 |
| 21 March 2010 | 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 nearby
12 of 160 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt. | 1934 | Beckman, J.M. | Middle fork of Shade River, "Fossil Creek" |
![]() | Myosotis laxa Lehm. | 1831 | C. H. Jones | Orange Twp. |
![]() | Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. | 1896 | Selby, A.D. | Caananville |
![]() | Cynips Linnaeus, 1758 | 1928 | A. C. Kinsey | Coolville |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1931 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Fairfield Twp., Washington Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Noturus eleutherus Jordan, 1877 | 1932 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Shurrager, P. | Hocking River, near Guysville, ~2.2 mi SW of Stewart, Rome township |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1939 | Trautman, 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 2017The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frost | $3,000 | Numerous trees were blown down and laid along State Route 144. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frost | $2,000 | A power line was downed by a falling tree. |
| November 2017 | Flash Flood | Frost | $2,000 | Flooding along Jordan Run and Frost Run closed State Route 144 in both directions between US 50 and State Route 329 north of Coolville. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frost | $1,500 | Near the community of Frost, a tree down blew down onto power lines and caught on fire. |
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.
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.
























