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.
Population over time
2 figuresGlencoe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 310 | |
| 2020 | 264 | -46 (-15%) |
Then and now
1905 to 1986The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Richland township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
77,421 words on this townshipCentennial 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 2002Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15137 |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15448 |
| 30 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15559 |
| 23 March 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7609 |
| 23 March 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7568 |
| 23 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7469 |
| 20 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15011 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,410 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829 | 1829 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1839 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont. | 1905 | J.L. Sheldon | Near Round Bottom |
![]() | Houstonia caerulea L. | 1800 | Guttenberg, G. | near Wheeling |
![]() | Robinia L. | 1829 | Guttenberg, G. | Wheeling |
![]() | Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn. | 1835 | E. Wilkinson | Ohio |
![]() | Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1837 | B. Frank | Ohio |
![]() | Carex × sullivantii Boott | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant | Ohio |
![]() | Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull. | 1843 | D. Sullivan | |
![]() | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1844 | S. B. Mead | Ohio |
![]() | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Carex gracilescens Steud. | 1847 | G. B. Ashcroft | Ohio |
All 1,410 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
6 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Glencoe | $50,000 | Residence flooding with entrapment was reported in Glencoe. |
| February 2000 | Flash Flood | Glencoe | $5,000 | Ice jam flooding was reported along McMahon Creek. The ice was jammed at the Kings Bridge and backed water up onto SR 149. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Glencoe | $1,000 | Broadcast media reported flooding along McMahon Creek and Williams Creek. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glencoe | - | OHDOT reported State Route 149 closed due to debris and trees down. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Glencoe | - | The local emergency manger reported that State Route 149 was closed due between Glencoe and Neffs due to flooding. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Glencoe | - | A local emergency manger reported an empty parked car was swept away in flood waters. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewartsville | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Whitney | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Key | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Warnock | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Anvil | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Jacobsburg | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Claremont | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Kelsey (historical) | 3.3 miles | 12 |
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 Glencoe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3472847 | The 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.




























