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Haven On The Ohio Park, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Mead Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43947. It stands on Big Run. The Survey maps it on the Businessburg quadrangle.

Haven On The Ohio Park within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Haven On The Ohio Park, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Haven On The Ohio Park, surveyed 1905

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 1903 county history

4,411 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 Mead Township covers col. davtd lockwood, the first settlers, the mining industry, the milling industry, the population and township officials, bethel.

Read the chapter on Mead Township - 4,411 words.

Fires nearby

33 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Haven On The Ohio Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2002Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryROBERTS RIDGE
4 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13386
16 May 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryHIGHLAND AVE
3 April 1995Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWV RT. 2
19 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryFORK RIDGE
16 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWASHINGTON LANDS - ROUND BOTTOM
16 April 1997Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryOLD B&O RAILROAD GRADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 879 shown

Museums hold 879 specimens collected within 10 miles of Haven On The Ohio Park between 1829 and 1975: 678 Plantae, 113 Fungi, 87 Animalia, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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 Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829Racodium E.M.Fries, 18291829J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631839J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1905J.L. SheldonNear Round Bottom
A photograph of the species Persicaria virginiana, not of this specimenPersicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.1835E. WilkinsonOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1837B. FrankOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sullivantii, not of this specimenCarex × sullivantii Boott1842W. S. SullivantOhio
A photograph of the species Homalothecium subcapillatum, not of this specimenHomalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.1843D. Sullivan
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1844S. B. MeadOhio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Carex gracilescens, not of this specimenCarex gracilescens Steud.1847G. B. AshcroftOhio
A photograph of the species Carex stricta, not of this specimenCarex stricta Lam.1853E. L. MoseleyOhio
A photograph of the species Cylindrothecium seductrix, not of this specimenCylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull.1863D. Sullivan

All 879 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Haven On The Ohio Park: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Bituminous. 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
Captina Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Point QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer
Powhatan Point PlantSilicaUnknown
Captina Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dilles Bottom Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
John D Tonkovich and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Belmont 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
Dilles Bottom0.9 miles15
Webb2.6 miles15
Heath2.8 miles15
Wegee3.0 miles15
Vadis3.2 miles15
Shadyside3.7 miles15
Avondale4.4 miles19
Vallonia4.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122545833The 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 2633571. 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.