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

Getaway, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45619. It stands on Rankin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle.

Getaway within Lawrence County

Then and now

1892 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Getaway, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet of Getaway, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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

87 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Getaway between 2002 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined	34
Debris and open burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Natural	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 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15245
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 September 2015	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	2204
29 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11367
1 August 2013	Natural	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8546
2 June 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,089 shown

Museums hold 1,089 specimens collected within 10 miles of Getaway between 1840 and 1974: 814 Animalia, 129 Plantae, 122 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1892	W.A. Kellerman	Symmes Creek
Aecidium clematidis DC.	1896	F.L. Stevens
Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
Eragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees	1880	T Meehan
Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Big Sandy River, near mouth
Isoperla bilineata (Say, 1823)	1899	Nathan Banks
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Guyandotte River
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1903	Beale J. M.	Guyandotte
Coniothyrium fuckelii Sacc.	1904	Brooks Fred E.	Huntington
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1904	Brooks F. E.	Huntington
Haematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 1902	1905	Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David Zamparo	Huntington
Cladosporium carpophilum Thüm.	1906	C.M. Davidson

All 1,089 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Getaway: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Huntington Alloys Rolling Mill	Nickel	Producer
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Wilson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

5 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Getaway in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Getaway	$2,000	Outside of Chesapeake, a tree and nearby power lines fell down onto a local road.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Getaway	$2,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Getaway	$250	Outside the town of Chesapeake, a tree was blown down onto State Route 243 near Frys Tack Shop.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Getaway	$250	Two trees were blown down onto Gateway Big Branch Road and County Road 35 intersection.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Getaway	$250	One tree was blown down near Getaway.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Essex	2.7 miles	23
Howell	3.4 miles	23
Brentwood	3.4 miles	20
Symmes Park	3.7 miles	20
Crescent Lake	3.8 miles	20
Chesapeake	4.1 miles	20
Rockwood	4.2 miles	20
Sunrise	4.2 miles	23

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 Q122568533

The 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 1064717. 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.