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

Glass, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Grandview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It stands on Williams Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rinard Mills quadrangle.

Glass within Washington County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glass, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Glass, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

13,709 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 Grandview Township covers a picturesque locality, location, soil, timber, etc, organization of township, early settlement and personal sketches, lease run settlement, churches.

Read the chapter on Grandview Township - 13,709 words.

Fires nearby

19 since 1996

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Glass between 1996 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestDAVE DECKER FIRE
4 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryFRIENDLY
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources651
8 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresWayne National Forest260
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestSYCAMORE
7 March 2001Arson/incendiarism55 acresWayne National ForestBELL
6 March 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWayne National ForestJACKSON RUN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 149 shown

Museums hold 149 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glass between 1853 and 1975: 121 Animalia, 15 Fungi, 11 Plantae, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright, Archer, W. A. 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Tympanis confusa Nyl.Tympanis confusa Nyl.1962W.B. Cooke; V.G. CookeSchool Forest, Antioch, Glen Helen
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
Alternaria solani Sorauer1905Post A. LeeLong Reach
Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.1928Archer, W. A.Greenbrier
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township

All 149 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glass: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Muskingum River G. Plant No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Hohman2.6 miles16
Ward (historical)3.4 miles16
New Matamoras3.7 miles18
Grandview3.8 miles18
Bloomfield4.1 miles16
Muskingum (historical)5.0 miles16
Beavertown5.3 miles19
Shay5.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075926. 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.