Greenwood, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43780. It stands on Opossum Run. The Survey maps it on the Senecaville quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 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
13 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.
- 1909 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
3,384 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895 names this settlement in its chapter on Richland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
"Senecaville was laid out in 1814 or 1815, and in 1816, when his father moved to town, its streets were lined with stumps and brush. He said there was a salt spring on the edge of the creek near the Greenwood bridge, from the water of which his brother William made salt at a furnace containing about thirty-six kettles, which he leased from the owners. It does not seem that at that time there was any other salt furnace on this side of the Ohio River. People came from distant points and conveyed it away. It sold at from *2.50 to $3 per bushel. These works consumed a considerable quantity of wood, and furnished employment to many choppers, salt-boilers and others, and were
Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895.
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 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
36 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 2009 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8805 |
| 20 September 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16076 |
| 31 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 May 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1301 |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16079 |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16082 |
| 28 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 153 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 153 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greenwood between 1875 and 1975: 84 Animalia, 67 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adler, K. K. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Enslenia albida Nutt. | 1875 | s.c. | Fairmont |
![]() | Impatiens pallida Nutt. | 1875 | Lloyd, Curtis Gates | Fairmont |
![]() | Daedalea ambigua Berk. | 1902 | Lloyd C. G. | Glenwood |
![]() | Dothiorella Sacc., 1880 | 1910 | Dawson W. | Byesville |
| Apidae | 1916 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Cuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Goniodes Nitzsch, 1818 | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Haematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry |
All 153 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senecaville | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Chestnut Grove Cottage Area | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Walhonding | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| West Shore Cottage Area | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Duch Addition | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hickory Grove Cottage Area | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| East Shore Cottage Area | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Buffalo | 3.2 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048804. 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.























