Block
Heslop, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45750. It stands on Deans Fork. The Survey maps it on the Dalzell quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Dalzell quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
14,305 words on this townshipHistory of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Lawrence Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
George Heslop was born in England in 1790. He emigrated to America and settled in Lawrence township in 1844. His death occurred in 1878. Agnes Dixon, his wife, was born in 1794, and died in 1840. The surviving members of the family are: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Lumsdon, who resides in Pennsylvania; Agnes, wife of Andrew Johnson, Fearing township; Jane, wife of Thomas Spratt, Adams township; William, Lawrence township: Isabel, wife of Alexander Ormiston, Barlow township; and John, who was born in 1828. In 1865 he married Anna Thompson, who was born in 1845+ They have six children. John Heslop came from England in 1844, and settled on one hundred and forty acres of land in the north part of Lawrence township.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
The official name of the first post office was Lawrence Township, John W. Dye, postmaster. Mr. Dye's farm was central in location, and one office met the wants of the settlers until 1843, when Archibald Campbell, who resided in the northeast corner was commissioned postmaster of Lawrence, and Joseph Caywood, who resided in the southwest corner, became postmaster of Lower Lawrence. 'This office was discontinued when Hill's was established. Moss Run was established in 1858; Dr. McCowan has been postmaster since 1863. The post office known as Fifteen was established in 1867, and placed in charge of Leonard Button. In 1879 it was deemed advisable to discontinue Fifteen and establish an office at Heslop's, in Liberty township. The rapid growth of Cow Run in 1869, made the establishment of an office at that place a necessity. 'The department granted the request of the citizens in December of that year, and commissioned William P. Guitteau postmaster. T. J. Connor is the present incumbent. Lunville, located at the headwaters of Bear run, was established in 1879. Moss Run, Cow Run, and Lunville are the three offices now in existence in the township.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
16 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Heslop between 2001 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 15 MILE FIRE |
| 13 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | NEFF RIDGE |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | TUESDAY FIRE |
| 5 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | 15 MILE |
| 15 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 890 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 642 |
| 24 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.1 acres | Wayne National Forest | STATE ROUTE 26 |
| 19 March 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | NEFF RIDGE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 211 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 211 specimens collected within 10 miles of Heslop between 1853 and 1975: 200 Animalia, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 21, 3 miles north of Marietta. |
 | Vicia villosa Roth | 1961 | Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 21, 3 miles north of Marietta. |
 | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
 | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
 | Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1896 | A. D. Selby | Rainbow. |
 | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | E Fork of Duck Creek, trib of Duck Creek, wtihin 0.5 mi of mouth, Salem Twp |
 | Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
All 211 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.
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 Q122538831 | 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 1076040. 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.