Lamira, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43718. It stands on Roberts Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clairsville quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
In the 1903 county history
6,198 words on this townshipThe county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Smith Township covers the highest point in the county, the early settlers, township officials and population, jacobsburg, reminiscences of pioneer days, the schools.
Read the chapter on Smith Township - 6,198 words.
Fires nearby
14 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lamira between 2002 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 May 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9666 |
| 4 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 March 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7609 |
| 23 March 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7568 |
| 15 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 896 shownMuseums hold 896 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lamira between 1829 and 1975: 586 Plantae, 201 Animalia, 108 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829 | 1829 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1839 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore | 1971 | Cusick, A.W. | disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp. |
![]() | Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn. | 1835 | E. Wilkinson | Ohio |
![]() | Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1837 | B. Frank | Ohio |
![]() | Carex × sullivantii Boott | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant | Ohio |
![]() | Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull. | 1843 | D. Sullivan | |
![]() | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1844 | S. B. Mead | Ohio |
![]() | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Carex gracilescens Steud. | 1847 | G. B. Ashcroft | Ohio |
![]() | Carex stricta Lam. | 1853 | E. L. Moseley | Ohio |
![]() | Cylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull. | 1863 | D. Sullivan |
All 896 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
4 since 1998The National Weather Service names Lamira in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Lamira | $525,000 | The National Weather Service surveyed three touch down points in|Belmont county. The first was in the small town of Loomis where|several hardwood trees had large branches down and a tree was|uprooted. The next point was a roof that was blown off a business|and displaced nearly 150 yards behind the business. In addition, a|motor home was toppled over and landed on two sports car damaging|both of them. A shed was also destroyed at this location, which |was adjacent to the business. The last point several hardwood|trees where knocked down. Estimated Maximum Wind Speed...90mph to 95mph.|Estimated damage cost was provided by the local emergency manager. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamira | $5,000 | Law enforcement reported trees down on Chapel Hill Road. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamira | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamira | - | Multiple trees were reported down, as well as a powerline. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loomis | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Warnock | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Belmont | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Whitney | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Lloydsville | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Great Western | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Centerville | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| East Richland | 3.8 miles | 17 |
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 Lamira | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133895 | 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 1082164. 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.




























