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

Jimtown, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Eagle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45647. It lies in Morrison Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ratcliffburg quadrangle.

Jimtown within Vinton County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jimtown, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Jimtown, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 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.

Fires nearby

16 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Jimtown between 2009 and 2020, burning about 669 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5348
6 April 2013Arson/incendiarism280 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15596
18 April 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1025
18 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1084
18 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1083
18 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 553 shown

Museums hold 553 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jimtown between 1912 and 1975: 528 Animalia, 25 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer et al., Arden R. Gaufin 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 Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1940not recordedSouth Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township
A photograph of the species Robinia hispida, not of this specimenRobinia hispida L.1912Crawford, C.G.southern Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pigeon Creek, within Vinton Co, Vinton County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near Eagle Mills, Vinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Middle Fork Pigeon Creek, within central Harrison township, near Eagle Mills, Harrison township

All 553 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Jimtown in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 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
May 2011Flash FloodJimtown$2,500,000Small streams in the western portion of the county flooded. Streams such as Pike Run, and the Middle Fork of Salt Creek damaged roads, homes and campers. One home was destroyed, 11 homes had major damage, and 42 others had minor damage.
May 2012Flash FloodJimtown$150,000Streams such as Pretty Run, Salt Creek, Middle Fork of Salt Creek, Raccoon Creek, and Puncheon Fork, flooded and damaged roads. Culverts under some roads were damaged. Private bridges were damaged. Near MacArthur, some residents in a trailer park were evacuated. The American Red Cross gave assistance to 14 families in Vinton County.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindJimtown$1,500Downed trees and power lines in and around McArthur resulted in over two hundred homes to be without power.

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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
Eagle Mills2.4 miles14
Cox (historical)3.8 miles14
Goosetown (historical)6.3 miles16
Ratcliffburg6.6 miles14
Bee (historical)8.0 miles13
Allensville8.3 miles16
Royal8.6 miles16
Stella9.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064913. 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.