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.
Then and now
1904 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 printed 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.
- 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1937 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Hammondsville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 105 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 22 June 1999 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WASHINGTON SCHOOL ROAD |
| 1 May 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | ARROYO ROAD |
| 8 April 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 6.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CRESENT |
| 29 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | RT. 208 |
| 2 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4129 |
| 16 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4609 |
| 13 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2530 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 288 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Catocala epione Drury, 1773 | 1941 | not recorded | Richmond, Jefferson State Park |
![]() | Catocala residua Grote, 1874 | 1941 | not recorded | Richmond, Jefferson State Park |
![]() | Anisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt. | 1878 | J. D. Smith | Newburgh |
![]() | Pleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1890 | Dean, G W | Ohio River, Yellow Creek |
![]() | Icterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | E.A. Doolittle | Richmond |
![]() | Vireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1899 | E.A. Doolittle | Richmond |
![]() | Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1900 | A. Doolittle | Richmond |
| Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst. | 1904 | Sheldon John L. | Arroyo | |
![]() | Glomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk | 1904 | Sheldon J. L. | Arroyo |
![]() | Ramularia tulasnei Sacc. | 1904 | Sheldon John L. | Arroyo |
![]() | Panicum virgatum L. | 1909 | Vickers, E.W. | near Wellsville, Ohio, WV bank of Ohio River |
![]() | Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link | 1909 | Vickers, 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 near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Hammondsville: 10 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Run Plant--Cresent Brick Co | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Iron City Plant and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Iron City Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wellsville Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Dando Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Dando Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| H.K. Porter Brick Plant | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Irondale Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Irondale Works Mine | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Standard Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2010 | Flash Flood | Hammondsville | $100,000 | A trained spotter reported many roads closed due to flash flooding along Yellow Creek near Hammondsville. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hammondsville | $10,000 | Trees and power lines down across County Rd 55. 100 customers lost power. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hammondsville | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees across the northern and central parts of Jefferson County. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hammondsville | - | Law Enforcement reported trees down on State Route 213. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cream City | 0.7 miles | 22 | |
| Irondale | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Yellow Creek | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| New Somerset | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Port Homer | 3.7 miles | 22 | |
| Holt | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Sugar Grove | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Knoxville | 4.7 miles | 23 |
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 Hammondsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5645881 | The 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.




















