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Hartwood, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43837. It stands on Backus Knob. The Survey maps it on the Gnadenhutten quadrangle.

Hartwood within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hartwood, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hartwood, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 county-history sources

2,378 words on this township

The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Hartwood Methodist Protestant Church stands in the northwestern part of the township, in the southeast corner of Lot 18. The society was organized between 1830 and 1835. The Woodwards, McFees, Dorseys, Murphys aud a few others were the earliest members. The first house was built of logs, and was of the most primitive stamp. The seats were in keeping with the building, and consisted simply of slab benches without backs.

Passage source: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884.

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 Washington Township.

Fires near this place

11 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hartwood between 2016 and 2020, burning about 38 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 burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
11 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13588
11 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution18 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13665
5 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9245
3 April 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15689
15 April 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9247
15 April 2016Smoking3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4806
10 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13705
10 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13105

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 158 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hartwood between 1851 and 1973: 110 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 20 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Perry, Allen, John, Borror, D.J. 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 Paxina hispida (Schaeff.) SeaverPaxina hispida (Schaeff.) Seaver1935Cooke, William BridgeRock House
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1960HoltNewcomerstown, 3.5 Mile NW Of junction Highway 21 & 258 on 21
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Tuscarawa City
A photograph of the species Euglesa casertana, not of this specimenEuglesa casertana (Poli, 1791)1910Allen, JohnHahn's Grove, near Dover Bay
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1910not recordedWarwick
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1920Ortmann, Arnold EPhiladelphia Road
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1920Ortmann, Arnold EPhiladelphia Road
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1920Ortmann, Arnold EPhiladelphia Road
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1920Ortmann, Arnold EPhiladelphia Road
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1920Ortmann, Arnold EPhiladelphia Road
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek

All 158 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hartwood: 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Port Washington MineClayPast Producer
Stocker Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
E J Heston ProspectIronOccurrence
Playford Bliss ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas 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
Bernice2.1 miles14
Gilmore2.5 miles15
Berwyn (historical)2.5 miles17
Port Washington3.9 miles14
Glasgow4.1 miles14
Peoli4.3 miles17
Booth4.5 miles15
Elm (historical)4.5 miles15

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 HartwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133806The 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 1062484. 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.