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

Glasgow, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43837. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newcomerstown quadrangle.

Glasgow within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1911 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 83 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 1994
Topographic sheet of Glasgow, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

7 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Glasgow between 2016 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9245
15 April 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9247
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12989
20 February 2018Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12990
11 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16052
15 November 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6166
20 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15317

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 133 shown

Museums hold 133 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glasgow between 1851 and 1973: 82 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 22 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Perry, Allen, John, Borror, D.J. 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 Paxina hispida (Schaeff.) SeaverPaxina hispida (Schaeff.) Seaver1935Cooke, William BridgeRock House
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1960HoltNewcomerstown, 3.5 Mile NW Of junction Highway 21 & 258 on 21
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Tuscarawa City
A photograph of the species Euglesa casertana, not of this specimenEuglesa casertana (Poli, 1791)1910Allen, JohnHahn's Grove, near Dover Bay
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Micropterus salmoides, not of this specimenMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Notropis spilopterus, not of this specimenNotropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek

All 133 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Glasgow: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Clay, 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
Goshen PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Plant
E J Heston ProspectIronOccurrence
Newcomerstown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Playford Bliss ProspectIronOccurrence
Port Washington MineClayPast Producer
Port Washington Shale PitClayProducer
Stocker Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas County

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Glasgow in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGlasgow$50,000Law enforcement reported a garage destroyed on Beagle Club Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGlasgow$5,000Law enforcement reported trees down blocking River Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGlasgow$2,000Trees and power lines were reported down in Newcomertown, OH.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas 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
Wolf1.4 miles14
Port Washington2.1 miles14
Mizers2.7 miles14
Creekside Crossing3.2 miles14
Bernice3.5 miles14
Coalport3.7 miles14
Newcomerstown3.9 miles14
Hartwood4.1 miles15

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 Q22133777The 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 1062783. 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.