Leo, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in Meadow Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Byer quadrangle.
Then and now
1913 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 67 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.
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Jackson township, in the words of 1900.
Economic Value
The Portsmouth shales form the basis of the extensive paving brick industry in the vicinity of Portsmouth and Sciotoville. The quantity of suitable material in these beds is practically unlimited, as the shales have been attacked only at a few places along the outcrop. At present the mining is confined to blasting the shales from the sides of the hills, or to working the beds by short entries.
Fires nearby
36 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Leo between 2006 and 2020, burning about 232 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5145 |
| 13 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | 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 |
| 3 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4511 |
| 22 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15176 |
| 21 April 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1001 |
| 17 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 26 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4571 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,318 shownMuseums hold 1,318 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leo between 1878 and 1975: 661 Animalia, 594 Plantae, 58 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Metzgeria furcata (L.) Corda | 1925 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Calodon | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Little Salt Creek |
![]() | Calvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Little Salt Creek |
![]() | Houstonia caerulea L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej. | 1878 | None | Hamden |
![]() | Plantago lanceolata L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758 | 1899 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Rorippa Scop. | 1905 | F. Bartley | 3 mi south of Jackson |
![]() | Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm. | 1915 | Hedgcock G. G. | Jackson |
![]() | Trametes robiniophila Murrill | 1916 | MCCLEDROTLE G. A.? | Coalton |
![]() | Eriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889) | 1923 | Miller, A. E. (August E.) | Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A. |
All 1,318 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
10 since 2008The National Weather Service names Leo in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Leo | $50,000 | Water blocked and closed several roads in the county. Clay Banner Road was one example north of Oak Hill. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF2) | Leo | $20,000 | A tornado formed along Erwin Hollow Road where several hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then moved northeast over a thick forest of mixed pine and hardwood trees between Erwin Hollow Road and Roberts Road where drone footage showed an extensive area of leveled hardwood trees and EF2 intensity was obtained. The drone footage and ground surveys then showed that the tornado weakened and the path became intermittent as it crossed Roberts Road, where a house was damaged when a tree fell on it. The last damage was noted along Oakland Road where several large pine trees were uprooted or snapped. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Leo | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leo | $2,000 | A tree and adjacent power lines were blown down near the intersection of Oakland Road and Rock Run Road. Another tree was blown down at the intersection of Oakland Road and Roberts Road. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leo | $2,000 | Two trees and a power line fell down along Limerick Road near the town of Limerick. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leo | $1,000 | Two large trees were blown down along Sour Run Road. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leo | $1,000 | Trees were blown down along Limerick Road. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leo | $500 | Multiple trees were blown down near the intersection of Diggs Road and Sour Run Road. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leo | $250 | The intersection of Rock Run Road and US Route 25 was closed for a period of time due to a downed tree. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Leo | - | Brohard Road was closed near Limerick Road due to flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Glen Nell | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Savageville | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Byer | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Garfield | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Buffalo | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Coalton | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Englishville | 4.1 miles | 14 |
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 Leo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q85776251 | 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 1070814. 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.
























