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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.

Leo within Jackson County

Then and now

1913 to 1980

The 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 sheet of Leo, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Leo, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jackson township, in the words of 1900.

1900, Jackson Township

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.

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Fires nearby

36 since 2006

The 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5145
13 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4511
22 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15176
21 April 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1001
17 April 2016Debris and open burning26 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4571

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,318 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Metzgeria furcata (L.) CordaMetzgeria furcata (L.) Corda1925Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorWhite's Gulch
Specimen of CalodonCalodon1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
Specimen of Calvatia caelata (Bull.) MorganCalvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rorippa Scop., not of this specimenRorippa Scop.1905F. Bartley3 mi south of Jackson
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1915Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
A photograph of the species Trametes robiniophila, not of this specimenTrametes robiniophila Murrill1916MCCLEDROTLE G. A.?Coalton
A photograph of the species Eriophyes laevis, not of this specimenEriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889)1923Miller, 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 2008

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Flash FloodLeo$50,000Water blocked and closed several roads in the county. Clay Banner Road was one example north of Oak Hill.
April 2024Tornado (EF2)Leo$20,000A 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 2008FloodLeo$10,000no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindLeo$2,000A 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 2019Thunderstorm WindLeo$2,000Two trees and a power line fell down along Limerick Road near the town of Limerick.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLeo$1,000Two large trees were blown down along Sour Run Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLeo$1,000Trees were blown down along Limerick Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLeo$500Multiple trees were blown down near the intersection of Diggs Road and Sour Run Road.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindLeo$250The intersection of Rock Run Road and US Route 25 was closed for a period of time due to a downed tree.
April 2025FloodLeo-Brohard Road was closed near Limerick Road due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Pine Grove2.3 miles13
Glen Nell2.5 miles12
Savageville2.7 miles13
Byer3.0 miles13
Garfield3.1 miles14
Buffalo3.7 miles14
Coalton3.9 miles14
Englishville4.1 miles14

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 LeoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85776251The 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.