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Hammondsville, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43930. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Hammondsville within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hammondsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hammondsville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

21 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hammondsville between 1994 and 2018, burning about 97 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
23 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 June 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWASHINGTON SCHOOL ROAD
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryARROYO ROAD
29 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 208
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4129
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4609
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2530
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 288 shown

Museums hold 288 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hammondsville between 1878 and 1974: 202 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Acker, G. 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 Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Anisothecium varium, not of this specimenAnisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.1878J. D. SmithNewburgh
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Glomerella rufomaculans, not of this specimenGlomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk1904Sheldon J. L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1909Vickers, E.W.near Wellsville, Ohio, WV bank of Ohio River
A photograph of the species Spartina pectinata, not of this specimenSpartina pectinata Bosc ex Link1909Vickers, E.W.WV side of Ohio River across river from Wellsville, Ohio

All 288 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hammondsville: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Deep Run Plant--Cresent Brick CoFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Iron City Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Iron City Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dando MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Dando MineClayPast Producer
H.K. Porter Brick PlantClayPast Producer
Irondale MineClayProducer
Irondale Works MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms nearby

4 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Hammondsville in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2010Flash FloodHammondsville$100,000A trained spotter reported many roads closed due to flash flooding along Yellow Creek near Hammondsville.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHammondsville$10,000Trees and power lines down across County Rd 55. 100 customers lost power.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindHammondsville$4,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees across the northern and central parts of Jefferson County.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindHammondsville-Law Enforcement reported trees down on State Route 213.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Cream City0.7 miles22
Irondale1.4 miles22
Yellow Creek2.4 miles22
New Somerset2.9 miles22
Port Homer3.7 miles22
Holt3.9 miles13
Sugar Grove4.3 miles22
Knoxville4.7 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HammondsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5645881The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064786. 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.