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

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.

Grahamsville within Jackson County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The 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 sheet of Grahamsville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Grahamsville, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

23 since 2006

The 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking1

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
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3666

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 829 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Metzgeria furcata (L.) CordaMetzgeria furcata (L.) Corda1925Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorWhite's Gulch
Specimen of Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Polyporus semipileatus PeckPolyporus semipileatus Peck1928Walter PhillipsMill Hollow, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rorippa Scop., not of this specimenRorippa Scop.1905F. Bartley3 mi south of Jackson
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1915Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
A photograph of the species Eriophyes laevis, not of this specimenEriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889)1923Miller, A. E. (August E.)Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A.
unnamed1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Bazzania trilobata, not of this specimenBazzania trilobata (L.) Gray1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Calypogeia trichomanis, not of this specimenCalypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia bicuspidata, not of this specimenCephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch

All 829 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Comer Quarry and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms nearby

6 since 2010

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2012Flash FloodGrahamsville$250,000Many 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 2010Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$6,000Trees fell onto power lines along Route 139.
September 2012HailGrahamsville$5,000A home along Riegel Ridge Road was damaged.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$3,000In Grahamsville, a tree was blown down onto power lines, causing numerous local power outages.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$750Numerous trees were blown down along Horton Sisters Road near Grahamsville.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGrahamsville$500Several trees were blown down around Grahamsville.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Petersburg2.8 miles10
McCoy3.1 miles10
Mabee Corner3.9 miles10
Four Mile4.0 miles10
Glade5.4 miles13
Camba5.5 miles10
Keystone5.7 miles10
Banner6.2 miles10

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.