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

Gladstone, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45314. The Survey maps it on the Jamestown quadrangle.

Gladstone within Greene County

Then and now

1916 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gladstone, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Gladstone, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

693 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 Ross Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ross Township - 693 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gladstone between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
11 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 576 shown

Museums hold 576 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gladstone between 1873 and 1975: 399 Animalia, 103 Plantae, 73 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. M. Evans, A. R. Boone 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 Leiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.EvansLeiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.Evans1922William Bayard Taylor; G. H. ConklinClifbore[sp?] Gorge
A photograph of the species Rhynchostegium serrulatum, not of this specimenRhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger1873Collector unspecifiedClifton
A photograph of the species Rhytidium rugosum, not of this specimenRhytidium rugosum (Hedw.) Kindb.1873not recordedClifton
A photograph of the species Thamnobryum alleghaniense, not of this specimenThamnobryum alleghaniense (Müll.Hal.) Nieuwl.1875H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
Brachythecium laetum (Brid.) Schimp.1876not recordedClifton
Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger1876Mrs. Spence
A photograph of the species Bryum affine, not of this specimenBryum affine (Blandow ex Funck) Brid.1876Collector unspecifiedClifton
A photograph of the species Eurhynchium hians, not of this specimenEurhynchium hians (Hedw.) Sande Lac.1876H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
A photograph of the species Geocalyx graveolens, not of this specimenGeocalyx graveolens (Schrad.) Nees1876not recordedClifton
Plagiochila asplenioides (L.) Dumort.1876H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
Plagiomnium affine (Blandow ex Funck) T.J.Kop.1876not recordedClifton
Plagiothecium deplanatum (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) Spruce1876Hannah J. BiddlecomeClifton

All 576 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gladstone: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cedarville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Cedarville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms nearby

2 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Gladstone in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 1 hail, 1 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
October 2006HailGladstone$5,000no account filed
March 2026FloodGladstone-High water was reported between Gravel Pit Road and Cummings Road.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Grape Grove1.9 miles11
Jamestown6.5 miles11
Cedarville6.6 miles14
Shawnee Hills8.3 miles14
Mechanicsville (historical)8.5 miles11
Pattersons Corner8.7 miles14
New Jasper9.4 miles14
Stringtown9.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048787. 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.