Grimes, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45144. It stands on Ohio Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1919 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 72 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
15 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.
- 1919 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Vanceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,667 words on this townshipA History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Old Donald Sherwood, a relative of the wife of ! pioneer on Bush Creek, was known as the "foolish \ other things related of him is that while living in a cabi of Brush Creek, before a settlement was made there, h bear into a cave in the hills, and, Putnam like, with to tered it and shot the bear which weighed over three hun
Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.
1796, where Noble Grimes, in 1798, laid out the old town of Washington, for several years the seat of justice of Adams County. Here also were the Stephensons, the Bradfords, the Sherards, Faulkners, and many other early pioneer families.
Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.
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 Monroe Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Grimes (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 33 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15455 |
| 7 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | QUIKS RUN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 364 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 364 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grimes (historical) between 1923 and 1975: 266 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 43 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, Ahles, H.E., Amrine, J. W. (James W.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév. | 1929 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Cedar Run |
![]() | Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr. | 1929 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Cedar Run |
![]() | Mycorrhaphium adustum (Schwein.) Maas Geest. | 1929 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Cedar Run |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1923 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Lynx, Adams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 1799 | 1927 | Watters, G. (George) | Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Alosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Ohio Brush Creek, within Adams Co, Adams County, township n/a |
![]() | Asplenium cryptolepis Fernald | 1927 | Braun, E. Lucy | Buzzard's Roost Rock |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1927 | Watters, G. (George) | Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1927 | Walters, G. T. (George T.), Jr. | Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Diadophis punctatus edwardsii (Merrem, 1820) | 1928 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818) | 1928 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walters, G. | 1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | 1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio |
All 364 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grimes (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview Roadcut Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waggoner Ripple (historical) | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Gemmer | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Wrightsville | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Squirrel Town | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Stout | 4.2 miles | 15 | |
| Tulip | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Beasley Fork | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Catbird | 6.6 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055845. 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.


























