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Harrison Furnace, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45662. It stands on Strauss Ridge. The Survey maps it on the New Boston quadrangle.

Harrison Furnace within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harrison Furnace, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Harrison Furnace, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1903 county history

4,598 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Harrison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harrison Township - 4,598 words.

Fires nearby

35 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Harrison Furnace between 2003 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15795
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14185
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13865
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 968 shown

Museums hold 968 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harrison Furnace between 1884 and 1975: 898 Animalia, 41 Plantae, 23 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884H. MoresScioto River
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Campeloma Rafinesque, not of this specimenCampeloma Rafinesque, 18191885Ch. R. OrcuttScioto River
A photograph of the species Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1889Craig M.Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
Specimen of Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291896not recordedScioto River
unnamed1897MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 968 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 Harrison Furnace: 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
Frankfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms nearby

2 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Harrison Furnace in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHarrison Furnace$1,000A tree was knocked down along Swauger Valley Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHarrison Furnace$1,000A tree fell down on power lines on Swauger Valley Road near Dutch Ridge Road.

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Wheelers Mill1.7 miles12
Clarktown2.1 miles12
Minford2.3 miles12
Rubyville2.5 miles12
Purdy Corners2.7 miles12
Rigrish Addition3.9 miles12
Harrison Mills3.9 miles12
Highland Bend4.0 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122564723The 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 1062805. 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.