Grahamsville, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Scioto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45640. It stands on Jacko Run. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
23 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Grahamsville between 2006 and 2019, burning about 71 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3666 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 829 shownMuseums hold 829 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grahamsville between 1899 and 1975: 362 Animalia, 313 Plantae, 149 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A.J. Sharp, Bailey, R. (Reeve) & Bailey, J. (Joe) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Metzgeria furcata (L.) Corda | 1925 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Polyporus semipileatus Peck | 1928 | Walter Phillips | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758 | 1899 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Rorippa Scop. | 1905 | F. Bartley | 3 mi south of Jackson |
![]() | Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm. | 1915 | Hedgcock G. G. | Jackson |
![]() | Eriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889) | 1923 | Miller, A. E. (August E.) | Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A. |
| unnamed | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch | |
![]() | Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
All 829 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grahamsville: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comer Quarry and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
6 since 2010The National Weather Service names Grahamsville in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Grahamsville | $250,000 | Many roads were impassible. Several water rescues occurred from stalled vehicles. A woman was stranded in a park by high water and was rescued by boat. Businesses in the community of Jackson saw urban runoff get inside. This included the state motor vehicle registration building on Huron Street. Condominiums were also flooded on Huron Street. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $6,000 | Trees fell onto power lines along Route 139. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Grahamsville | $5,000 | A home along Riegel Ridge Road was damaged. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $3,000 | In Grahamsville, a tree was blown down onto power lines, causing numerous local power outages. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $750 | Numerous trees were blown down along Horton Sisters Road near Grahamsville. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grahamsville | $500 | Several trees were blown down around Grahamsville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petersburg | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| McCoy | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Mabee Corner | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Four Mile | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Glade | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Camba | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Keystone | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Banner | 6.2 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065523. 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.




















