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Locust Grove, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. The Survey maps it on the Peebles quadrangle. It stands 2,572 feet above sea level.

Locust Grove within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

The 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 sheet of Locust Grove, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Locust Grove, surveyed 1916

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.

In the county-history sources

821 words on this township

A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

As late as 1820, bears, catamounts, wolves and wild ful in this region. One day in the autumn of 1817 the c Platter while playing about their home discovered a large c eyeing them from a branch of a tree in the dooryard. The the alarm and James Horn was sent for who shot the f and upon inspection pronounced it one of the largest of

Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.

There is yet standing in this township the old log cat John A. Cockerill, the "Drummer Boy of Shiloh," and ; aging editor of the New York World, was bom. And aln of the old Cockerill home is that of the ancestors of White of the New York Tribune.

Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.

On the old Trace north of Locust Grove in pioneer days stood a huge log building known as Mershon's tavern. When Dr. Cuming traveled over the Trace from Limestone to Wheeling, in .1807, he stopped over night at Mershon's and in his "notes" comments on the "fiddling" talent of the landlord's sons, and their entertainment of guests with music. He also mentions the fact that at Cannon's tavern "the stage coach sleeps on its way from Limestone to Chillicothe."

Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.

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

Fires near this place

27 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Locust Grove between 2003 and 2020, burning about 227 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15275
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15274
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2007Natural3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8725
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15796
17 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 814 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 814 specimens collected within 10 miles of Locust Grove between 1892 and 1975: 419 Fungi, 245 Plantae, 132 Animalia, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. J. Sharp, A.J. Sharp 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 Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.1900W.A. KellermanMineral Springs
Specimen of Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 1931Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 19311927[Not Stated]Beaver Pond
Specimen of Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) MurrillLaetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill1929Benedict, H.near Fawcett
A photograph of the species Stigmella platani, not of this specimenStigmella platani Fuckel1892Kellerman W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1900Kern W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Puccinia smilacis, not of this specimenPuccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W. A. KellermanMineral Springs
A photograph of the species Baeomyces byssoides, not of this specimenBaeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.1925Muegel, Harry R.Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia amaurocraea, not of this specimenCladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia uncialis (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Parmelia Acharius, 18031925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 814 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Locust Grove: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Plum Run Stone Division QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Adams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plum Run Stone Div Meigs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust Grove in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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
July 2025Flash FloodLocust Grove$15,000A Child Advocacy Center was flooded with a foot and a half of water.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$10,000Trees were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds. This caused numerous roads to be closed in the area.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$5,000Several trees downed.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$4,000Multiple trees were downed near State Route 73.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$3,000no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindLocust Grove$3,000no account filed
March 2026FloodLocust Grove-High water was reported on several roads near Locust Grove.
February 2026FloodLocust Grove-High water was covering the intersection of State Route 73 and Black Hollow Road.
June 2009HailLocust Grove-Report of nickel size hail was reported by the public 5 miles northwest of Rarden.
January 2002Flash FloodLocust Grove-State Routes 41 and 73 were impassable, and Route 247 was under water.
May 2014HailLocust Grove-no account filed
February 1996HailLocust Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Bacon Flat2.0 miles14
Smoky Corners2.6 miles17
Marble Furnace2.8 miles13
Peebles3.1 miles13
Beaver Pond3.8 miles14
Pine Gap4.0 miles14
Louisville4.6 miles13
Louden4.8 miles16

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 Locust GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6666098The 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 1057814. 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.