Lawshe, 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 West Fork Ohio Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peebles quadrangle.
Then and now
1916 to 1991The 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 sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1916 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the 1900 county history
4,078 words on this townshipThe county history of 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Meigs Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Meigs Township - 4,078 words.
Fires nearby
39 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Lawshe between 2003 and 2020, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15275 |
| 26 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8725 |
| 20 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15229 |
| 1 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13965 |
| 8 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,326 shownMuseums hold 1,326 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lawshe between 1866 and 1975: 542 Fungi, 453 Animalia, 297 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Stigmella platani Fuckel | 1892 | Kellerman W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel | 1900 | Kern W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
![]() | Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1925 | Muegel, Harry R. | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia cristatella Tuck. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
| Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
All 1,326 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
4 since 2001The National Weather Service names Lawshe in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Lawshe | $30,000 | High water rushed over Nichols Ridge Rd, completely covering the roadway in the gravel from the shoulders, and washing the shoulders away. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lawshe | $10,000 | A tree fell on a mobile home due to thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Lawshe | - | An unoccupied truck was swept away in high water near Peebles. Minor damage sustained by a few homes and roadways across the northern part of the county. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lawshe | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Marble Furnace | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Peebles | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Louisville | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Tranquility | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Steam Furnace | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Wheat Ridge | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Irvington (historical) | 4.3 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122597278 | 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 1048909. 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.























