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

Gephart, 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 stands on Tick Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle.

Gephart 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 Gephart, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Gephart, 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 1903 county history

4,336 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Bloom Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bloom Township - 4,336 words.

Fires nearby

65 since 1998

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Gephart between 1998 and 2020, burning about 225 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8765
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
5 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15211
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15795
17 July 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15785
3 June 2014Debris 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 nearby

12 of 97 shown

Museums hold 97 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gephart between 1898 and 1975: 67 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 12 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Ahles, H.E., Aschinger, H. (Henry), Braun, E. Lucy 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 97 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gephart: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bonclay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
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

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
Ashley Corner1.3 miles12
Scioto Furnace1.8 miles12
Frederick1.9 miles12
Edmunds Switch2.4 miles12
Fair Oaks2.4 miles12
Slocum2.9 miles12
Slocum Heights3.1 miles12
Harrison Mills3.2 miles12

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 Q122540014The 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 1075901. 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.