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

Glasgow, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43968. It stands on Round Knob. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle.

Glasgow within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glasgow, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Glasgow, surveyed 1904

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.

In the county-history sources

15,049 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The surface of the township is hilly in every part, and, in common with neighboring elevated regions, Madison is a healthful country and abounds in fine natural prospects. The salubrious climate conduces to extreme longevity, and to a remarkable retention of vigor, both physical and mental, by the aged.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

One of the first to locate upon this tract was Andrew McPherson, who came over in 1802 with two sons and two daughters, and took up the southeast quarter of section .26. Of Mr. McPherson's family of four sons and four daughters, one son, Andrew, is still a resident of Madison.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

A post-office was first established at Glasgow in 1837. The first postmaster was John McBane, who served until his death, when his brother Alexander received the appointment, and held it until his death, in J875, when John Lewis, the present appointee, entered the office.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Madison Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Fires near this place

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Glasgow between 1993 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15273
12 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15281
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
4 May 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCRESENT
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
6 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEWELL
4 April 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 624 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 624 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glasgow between 1889 and 1975: 445 Animalia, 154 Plantae, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Mac Gillivroy, Adler, K. K., Albert Peyron 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) MurrillIrpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill1917OverholtsW. Elkton
Specimen of Polyporus galactinus Berk.Polyporus galactinus Berk.1917OverholtsW. Elkton
A photograph of the species Polistes annularis, not of this specimenPolistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763)1889A. D. Mac GillivroySalineville
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1889not recordedSalineville
Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840)1891not recorded
Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864)1892unknownSalineville
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1892not recordedSalineville
Megachile mendica Cresson, 18781892unknownSalineville
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Plantago rugelii, not of this specimenPlantago rugelii Decne.1899Shafer, J.A.Lisbon

All 624 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glasgow: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Clarion Fire ClayTitanium, Silica, Iron, AluminumOccurrence1840
Wellsville PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasgow in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGlasgow$50,000Law enforcement reported trees down across portions of the southern half of the county.
August 2014HailGlasgow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbiana 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
Hillcrest2.7 miles20
Rock Camp2.9 miles20
Campus3.3 miles20
West Point3.6 miles20
Glenmoor3.6 miles22
Highlandtown3.9 miles13
Spring Grove4.3 miles22
Wellsville4.4 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on GlasgowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133776The 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 1064726. 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.