Harshasville, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Oliver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Grace Run. The Survey maps it on the Seaman quadrangle. It stands 2,379 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1918 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 73 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
11 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.
- 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the 1900 county history
6,490 words on this townshipThe county history of 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Oliver Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Oliver Township - 6,490 words.
Fires nearby
34 since 2004The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Harshasville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9909 |
| 21 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9916 |
| 4 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15229 |
| 26 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13965 |
| 8 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 724 shownMuseums hold 724 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harshasville between 1866 and 1975: 391 Animalia, 238 Fungi, 77 Plantae, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. J. Sharp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév. | 1929 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Cedar Run |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
| Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931) | 1903 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Hebata vitis (Göthe, 1875) | 1903 | not recorded | |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
![]() | Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1925 | Muegel, Harry R. | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia cristatella Tuck. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
| Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
All 724 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youngsville | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Unity | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Irvington (historical) | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Wheat Ridge | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Seaman | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion (historical) | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Leigh (historical) | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Tranquility | 3.8 miles | 11 |
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 Harshasville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5673860 | 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 1064803. 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.




















