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Gasville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45788. The Survey maps it on the Dalzell quadrangle.

Gasville within Washington County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gasville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Gasville, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1902 county history

10,513 words on this township

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Liberty Township covers the territory described, ancient smelting works, coal mines and oil wells, the birth of liberty, early elections, settlement.

Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 10,513 words.

Fires nearby

20 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Gasville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 116 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National Forest15 MILE FIRE
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestNEFF RIDGE
16 August 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5405
1 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestTUESDAY FIRE
5 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresWayne National Forest15 MILE
27 April 2020Debris and open burning18 acresWayne National ForestNOBLE COUNTY LINE
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10687
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15706

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 130 shown

Museums hold 130 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gasville between 1853 and 1975: 119 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright 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 Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1932C. MayMarietta
Specimen of Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.1932L.W.R.J.Nursery, Marietta
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 21, 3 miles north of Marietta.
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1896A. D. SelbyRainbow.
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asstE Fork of Duck Creek, trib of Duck Creek, wtihin 0.5 mi of mouth, Salem Twp

All 130 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Heslop2.0 miles15
Dalzell2.6 miles15
Bonn3.6 miles13
Dart3.7 miles19
Germantown3.8 miles15
Steel Run3.8 miles19
Moss Run3.8 miles19
Wingett Run4.0 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122568269The 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 1075897. 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.