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

Junior Furnace, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45629. It lies in Bowman Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Greenup quadrangle.

Junior Furnace within Scioto County

Then and now

1926 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Junior Furnace, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Junior Furnace, surveyed 1926

Compare 1926 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

7,694 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Green Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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

Fires near this place

108 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Junior Furnace between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,793 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Arson/incendiarism	15
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	GREEN GRASS
21 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13285
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	250 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11905
10 September 1998	Smoking	5.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	PINE CR. 650/522
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	SNAP 2 FIRE
2 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	BOLL
16 July 1999	Smoking	45 acres	Wayne National Forest	STATE RT.650

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 114 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Junior Furnace between 1890 and 1974: 87 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Braun, E. Lucy, C. Stein, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.) 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
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
Helmitheros vermivorum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1890	Edwin H. Eames	Culvertown
Alternaria Nees	1919	Ricker A. J.	Wheelersburg
Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Riker A. J.	Wheelersburg
Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	Riker A. J.	Wheelersburg
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	pond, near Pedro, Lawrence Co., Ohio
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township

All 114 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Junior Furnace: 5 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bush-Corn Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Franklin Furnace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Franklin Furnace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Haverhill Plant & Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Hoods Run Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Smith Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junior Furnace in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2011	Flood	Junior Furnace	1 killed	Flooding that was caused by heavy rains on May 10th continued into the day on May 12th. A man wading through chest deep water along Pine Creek in southeast Scioto County Ohio was pulled under around 1000 on May 12, 2011. His body was recovered during the early afternoon of May 12, 2011.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Junior Furnace	$3,000	A few trees were downed along Back Road.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Junior Furnace	$1,000	A large tree was downed along Big Pete Road.
December 2019	Flood	Junior Furnace	-	High water was reported on Junior and Back Roads.

Every storm recorded in Scioto 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
Ohio Furnace	1.9 miles	18
Highland Park	2.2 miles	16
Franklin Furnace	2.6 miles	16
Haverhill	2.9 miles	18
Powellsville	3.3 miles	16
Sand Hill	5.6 miles	16
Allentown	5.7 miles	16
Garden City	6.3 miles	16

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 Junior Furnace	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698479	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 1076159. 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.