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Glencoe, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43928. It stands on Welsh Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clairsville quadrangle. 264 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Glencoe within Belmont County

Population over time

2 figures

Glencoe fell from 310 to 264 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010310
2020264-46 (-15%)

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glencoe, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Glencoe, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Richland township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 - Richland Township

Chapter Xxvii

ORO EN A P M de e nr. ae uer peste RE Na TEE A a cin lh cr nf ll ors The First Election - The Battle of Captina - The First Squatters - An Indian Village - Another Indian Massacre - The Early Mills and Distilleries - Township Officials and Population - Powhatan - Town Officials - The Flour Mills - The Sehools - The Churches - Free Masons - The Ferries.

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In the county-history sources

77,421 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Richland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Glencoe was estalilished along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Eebruary, 1855, by John B. G. Eulton. Today it contains a population of about 200, which is increasing rapidly because of tbe accession of many miners in the employ of the Belmont Coal Mining Company. There are also a number of stores and a good flour mill. The school has an enrollment of about 120 and is conducted by C. A. Henry, superintendent, and Miss Ella Meek, assistant.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

The oldest citizen is Henry Neff who is now in his 92nd year. Mr. Neff is spending his closing years with his children who reside in Glencoe and the vicinity. Another octogenerian is John McNiece, who notwithstanding he is past 84 makes a daily visit to Glencoe and is hale in body and clear in mind.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

One of the oldest families in this section of Belmont County are the Aults. Michael Ault, Sr., settled where Glencoe now stands and engaged in the milling business. ^ His son Michael Ault followed in the pursuit of his father and purchased the mill property in 1836. In the prosecution of his business he ground and shipped 10,000 barrels of flour from October, 1846, to the following May, which were forwarded to different points down the river.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

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 Richland Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

16 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Glencoe between 2002 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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 burning9
Other causes2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 July 2002Naturalunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15137
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15448
30 March 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15559
23 March 2017Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7609
23 March 2017Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7568
23 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7469
20 March 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,410 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,410 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glencoe between 1800 and 1975: 1,041 Plantae, 231 Animalia, 136 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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 Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829Racodium E.M.Fries, 18291829J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631839J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1905J.L. SheldonNear Round Bottom
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1800Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Robinia L., not of this specimenRobinia L.1829Guttenberg, G.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Persicaria virginiana, not of this specimenPersicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.1835E. WilkinsonOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1837B. FrankOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sullivantii, not of this specimenCarex × sullivantii Boott1842W. S. SullivantOhio
A photograph of the species Homalothecium subcapillatum, not of this specimenHomalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.1843D. Sullivan
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1844S. B. MeadOhio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Carex gracilescens, not of this specimenCarex gracilescens Steud.1847G. B. AshcroftOhio

All 1,410 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glencoe in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2020Flash FloodGlencoe$50,000Residence flooding with entrapment was reported in Glencoe.
February 2000Flash FloodGlencoe$5,000Ice jam flooding was reported along McMahon Creek. The ice was jammed at the Kings Bridge and backed water up onto SR 149.
April 2024FloodGlencoe$1,000Broadcast media reported flooding along McMahon Creek and Williams Creek.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGlencoe-OHDOT reported State Route 149 closed due to debris and trees down.
July 2019Flash FloodGlencoe-The local emergency manger reported that State Route 149 was closed due between Glencoe and Neffs due to flooding.
July 2019Flash FloodGlencoe-A local emergency manger reported an empty parked car was swept away in flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Stewartsville1.6 miles18
Whitney2.2 miles17
Key2.5 miles15
Warnock2.8 miles17
Anvil3.0 miles15
Jacobsburg3.1 miles12
Claremont3.1 miles18
Kelsey (historical)3.3 miles12

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 GlencoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472847The 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 1082153. 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.

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.