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

Jacksonville, Ohio

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Steubenville City. It lies in ZIP code area 43952. It stands on Wills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steubenville East quadrangle.

Jacksonville within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 93 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 1997
Topographic sheet of Jacksonville, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

24 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.

Fires nearby

3 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville between 2014 and 2017, burning about 11 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
1 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1783
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7096

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 477 shown

Museums hold 477 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jacksonville between 1836 and 1974: 253 Animalia, 184 Plantae, 39 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick 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 Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1836Jewett
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Betula lenta, not of this specimenBetula lenta L.1877Wertz, H.W.Buffalo Creek near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Carex hirsutella, not of this specimenCarex hirsutella Mack.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium latifolium, not of this specimenDichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon, not of this specimenDichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Elymus hystrix, not of this specimenElymus hystrix L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, H.G.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1877Guttenberg, G.near Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum mutilum, not of this specimenHypericum mutilum L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville

All 477 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jacksonville: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Chromium. 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
(Facility) Steubenville SmelterIron, ChromiumPlant
Wheeling-Pgh/ Mingo Junction, OhioIronProducer
Wheeling-Pittsburgh/ SteubenvilleIronProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
La Belle View0.7 miles24
Pleasant Heights1.0 miles24
Steubenville1.2 miles24
Brady Estates1.2 miles24
Fishersville1.7 miles24
Alikanna1.7 miles23
Hollywood Addition1.7 miles24
Jeffersonville (historical)1.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1051091. 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.