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Jacksonville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Meigs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Bundle Run. The Survey maps it on the Peebles quadrangle.

Jacksonville within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jacksonville, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Jacksonville, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

4,078 words on this township

A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Meigs Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Jacksonville, on the Limestone and Chillicothe turnpike at the top of Brush Creek hill, was laid out by William Thomas in 1815, and named in honor of "Old Hickory," then the military hero of the country. A postoffice was established there about the above date with James Dunbar as postmaster. The postoffice was discontinued in 1827, but afterward re-established and called Dunbarton. The village is now rapidly dieclining in population and commercial importance frc^n its proximity to the new town of Peebles, on the C. P. & V. Railroad.

Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.

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

Fires near this place

38 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 127 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15275
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15274
26 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8725
20 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15229
26 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4387
6 April 2013Debris and open burning19 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,405 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,405 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jacksonville between 1866 and 1975: 560 Fungi, 493 Animalia, 318 Plantae, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.1900W.A. KellermanMineral Springs
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Stigmella platani, not of this specimenStigmella platani Fuckel1892Kellerman W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1900Kern W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Baeomyces byssoides, not of this specimenBaeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.1925Muegel, Harry R.Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia amaurocraea, not of this specimenCladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,405 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jacksonville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Plum Run Stone Division QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindJacksonville$3,000A few trees were downed.
August 2016Flash FloodJacksonville-High water was reported rushing over Lawshe Road near Route 41.
May 2014HailJacksonville-no account filed
May 2014HailJacksonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Steam Furnace1.7 miles13
Lawshe2.7 miles13
Peebles3.3 miles13
Fawcett3.4 miles12
Wheat Ridge3.7 miles11
Scrub Ridge3.8 miles12
Dunkinsville4.0 miles12
Unity4.6 miles11

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 JacksonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22022999The 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 1064897. 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.