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Longstreth, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Ward Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45764. The Survey maps it on the Nelsonville quadrangle.

Longstreth within Hocking County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Longstreth, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Longstreth, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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.

Fires nearby

132 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Longstreth between 1993 and 2020, burning about 199 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony75
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes2

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
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestTRAIL HEAD 5 FIRE
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestPINE FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestHIDEWAY FIRE
4 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestBOX FIRE
3 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest180
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWayne National ForestSNAKE HOLLOW
25 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15833

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 284 shown

Museums hold 284 specimens collected within 10 miles of Longstreth between 1894 and 1975: 256 Animalia, 16 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brodo, Irwin M., Campbell, L. W. (Louis W.), Carter, B. (Bruce) 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 Stamnaria americana Massee & MorganStamnaria americana Massee & Morgan1894W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631916not recorded
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)New Straitsville, Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1935Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)Ward Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Asplenium montanum, not of this specimenAsplenium montanum Willd.1935Wood, R.Conkle's Hollow State Park
A photograph of the species Pterostichus moestus, not of this specimenPterostichus moestus (Say, 1823)1935Stehr, W.C.Carbondale
A photograph of the species Dasyscyphus ellisianus, not of this specimenDasyscyphus ellisianus (Rehm) Sacc.1936Hansbrough J. R.Carbondale
A photograph of the species Rana sylvatica, not of this specimenRana sylvatica LeConte, 18251948H WALTERS AND M FITZMAURICE4 MI E N E OF LOGAN
Ranidae1948M FITZMAURICE4 MI E N E OF LOGAN
Polygonum tenue Michx.1949Davis, H.A.; Davis, T.In cinders along RR at Nelsonville

All 284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Longstreth: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Nutter Bros PitClay, CoalProducer
Own Crews QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nutter Brothers Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Nutter Brothers Clay PitClayPast Producer
Kimberly PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kimberly PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Hope Asphalt S&G IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Nelsonville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Nelsonville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hocking County

Storms nearby

5 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Longstreth in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLongstreth$2,000A few trees were downed.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLongstreth$1,000A tree was downed along Carbon Hill Buchtel Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLongstreth$1,000A tree was downed along Harris and Carbon Hill Buchtel Roads.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLongstreth$1,000A tree was knocked down on Carbon Hill Rd.
July 2025FloodLongstreth-Carbon Hill Buchtel Road and Harris Road both flooded along Monday Creek.

Every storm recorded in Hocking 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
Monday0.6 miles21
Carbon Hill1.3 miles15
Candy Town1.4 miles21
Sand Run1.5 miles15
New Pittsburg1.7 miles15
Cawthorn1.8 miles21
Consol (historical)1.8 miles15
Blatchford2.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065655. 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.