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

Glendale, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45638. It lies in Winkler Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Greenup quadrangle.

Glendale within Lawrence County

Then and now

1926 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glendale, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Glendale, surveyed 1926

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

203 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,483 acres in total. None started naturally. 42 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 burning	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Arson/incendiarism	42
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Other causes	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	11 acres	Wayne National Forest	WIND FIRE
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	JANIE FIRE
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BAILEY
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	HANGING ROCK SPUR A
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	250 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11905

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 260 shown

Museums hold 260 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glendale between 1890 and 1969: 143 Animalia, 62 Fungi, 54 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
Meigeniella hinei Coquillett, 1902	1899	[Not Stated]	Hanging Rock
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1890	Schneck	Hanging Rock
Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.	1892	W. C. Werner
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1892	W. C. Werner
Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.	1892	Carver Wm.	Ironton
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.	1892	W. C. Werner
Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton
Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner
Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton.
Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton
Leucobryum albidum (Brid. ex P.Beauv.) Lindb.	1892	W. C. Werner

All 260 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 Glendale: 1 plant. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Haverhill Plant & Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

4 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Glendale in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 3 flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2019	Flood	Glendale	$10,000	Multiple roads were closed due to flooding. County Route 93 was flooded along Ellisonville Creek, and the intersection of County Routes 6 and 30 was closed due to flooding on Ice Creek. Little Storm Creek flooded, closing a section of County Route 22 and State Route 141 was closed due to flooding on Long Creek. \|\|Symmes Creek also flooded. The river gage near Aid showed the creek rose above its 19 foot bankful level shortly before sunrise on the 17th. It crested around 21 feet that afternoon and returned to its banks just after noon on the 19th.
February 2020	Flood	Glendale	$4,000	The intersection of State Route 93 and State Route 373 in Ironton was closed in both direction due to high water. State Route 650 was also closed due to flooding in both directions between the town of Hanging Rock and County Route 21.
February 2019	Flood	Glendale	$2,000	Several roads were close due to flooding, including Route 93 near Pedro along Ellisonville Creek and State Route 775 along Long Creek.\|\|Symmes Creek at Aid also flooded, closing parts of State Route 141. The stream gage near Aid showed the creek rose above its 19 foot bankfull level very early on the 21st. The creek crested at 19.3 feet just before sunrise, and returned to its banks by mid morning.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Glendale	$1,000	Trees fell along Route 52.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hanging Rock	2.1 miles	17
Green Valley	3.1 miles	17
New Castle	3.6 miles	17
Pine Grove	4.1 miles	17
La Grange	4.3 miles	17
Ironton	4.6 miles	17
Coryville	5.3 miles	17
Royersville	5.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075929. 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.