Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Holloway, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Flushing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43977. It stands on Trail Run. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. 330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Holloway within Belmont County

Population over time

2 figures

Holloway fell from 338 to 330 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	338
2020	330	-8 (-2%)

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holloway, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Holloway, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

5,223 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Flushing Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The town.ship was organized in 1817 by the election of Enos West, James Wright and Isaac Branson, trustees, with Edward Bethel, clerk, and Samuel Holloway, treasurer. The first justices of the peace were James Judkins, James Crozier and Henry Long.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

Among the early settlers of Flushing township were George Brokaw, Sr., Darling Conrow, James Bethel. Elihu and Levi Hollingsworth, Isaac and Jacob Holloway, Asa and . David Branson, Jonathan Cash, Isaac Kirk, Levi Starkey, Stephen Hobson and Elisha Ellis. The children and grandchildren of these hardy pioneers have contributed largely to the growth and prosperity of the township, and their names are still conspicuous among the honored and influential citizens of the county.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

The present graded school was organized in 1880 and today it has an enrollment of 160, with A. M. Brown, superintendent, and John Henderson, Miss Deming and Miss Mattie Flollingsworth as assistants. The last-named lady has served as teacher for 22 consecutive years. The members of the School Board are : W. G. Todd, M. A. Klemm and A. B. Fisher.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

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 Flushing Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Holloway between 2003 and 2020, burning about 7 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 burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 August 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15821
20 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15232
31 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1501
29 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15096
24 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8053
23 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8051

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 57 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holloway between 1899 and 1972: 40 Plantae, 17 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., CL & LC Hubbs 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Anas discors Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	Lafferty, Lafferty's Pond.
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Notropis buccatus (Cope, 1865)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Phoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township

All 57 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holloway in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2020	Flash Flood	Holloway	$50,000	Numerous county roads were reported to be flooded, with several homes affected.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Holloway	$5,000	Trees were reported to have been blown on to a house near Holloway.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Holloway	$1,000	no account filed
March 2020	Hail	Holloway	-	One inch hail reported by an emergency manager.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Holloway	-	Report on social media indicated streams were overrunning their banks between Piedmont and Holloway. Storm drains were overflowing.
May 1996	Flash Flood	Holloway	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kennon (historical)	1.6 miles	13
Rock Hill	2.2 miles	13
Belmont Ridge	2.5 miles	14
Loghaven	2.6 miles	14
Reynolds Road Cottage Area	3.1 miles	14
Hidden Ledges Cottage Area	3.2 miles	14
Goodrich Cottage Area	3.2 miles	14
Golda	3.3 miles	14

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 Holloway	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668783	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 1048847. 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.

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.