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Havensport, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43112. It stands on Poplar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carroll quadrangle.

Havensport within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Havensport, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Havensport, surveyed 1907

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 county-history sources

5,578 words on this township

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Greenfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first election for the township was held at Yankeetown in the fall of 1805. The first tax-collector in Greenfield was Colonel Crooks, who was subsequently SheriS" of the county. Emanuel Carpenter is also spoken of as being at that time a citizen of Greenfield. His surviving friends, however, do not remember that he ever lived anywhere but down Hocking.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

There are three villages in Greenfield. Carroll was laid out by William Tong, at the junction of the Ohio and Hocking Valley canals. Havensport, a small village on the canal, was laid oiTby Isaac Havens; and Dumontsville, four miles northwest of Lancaster, by Mr. Dumont, from France.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

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 Greenfield Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Havensport between 2008 and 2020, burning about 28 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 burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15761
24 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestBLACKFORK CAR FIRE
7 March 2012Debris and open burning25 acresWayne National ForestSR 522
4 November 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15878

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,117 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,117 specimens collected within 10 miles of Havensport between 1843 and 1975: 1,787 Animalia, 259 Fungi, 63 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Bales, B. R., Bangham, R. V. 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 Kuehneola uredinis (Link) ArthurKuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur1891Freda DetmersRock Mill
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. StevensLancaster
Specimen of Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Bryoxiphium norvegicum, not of this specimenBryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Phyllogonium norvegicum, not of this specimenPhyllogonium norvegicum Brid.1843Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Bruchia flexuosa, not of this specimenBruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.1849C. L. LesquereuxLancaster
A photograph of the species Dicranodontium denudatum, not of this specimenDicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton1849C. L. Lesquereux
A photograph of the species Dicranum condensatum, not of this specimenDicranum condensatum Hedw.1849C. L. LesquereuxLancaster
Aecidium compositarum Mart.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium galiorum Pers.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aleurodiscus candidus (Schwein.) Burt1883W.A. KellermanLancaster
Arthuriomyces peckianus (Howe) Cummins & Y.Hirats.1883W. A. Kellerman

All 2,117 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Havensport: 2 producers. 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
Favil PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jimmys PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Havensport in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodHavensport$20,000Havensport Road was washed out due to rushing water.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindHavensport$20,000Several trees and barns were damaged along Basil Western Road and Reynoldsburg Baltimore Road.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Carroll1.7 miles12
Harley3.1 miles12
Lockville3.3 miles12
Dumontville3.8 miles12
Stoudertown4.1 miles12
Lockville Station4.1 miles12
Hooker4.4 miles12
Baltimore4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048826. 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.