Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Loomis, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1962. It stands in Goshen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43718. It stands on Barkcamp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bethesda quadrangle.

Loomis within Belmont County

Then and now

1903 to 1962

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Loomis, surveyed 1962

Topographic sheet of Loomis, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1903 county history

5,147 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Goshen Township covers capture of lewis wetzel and his brother, the first settlements, spinning in the olden time, early settlers, township officials and population, goshen township in the civil war.

Read the chapter on Goshen Township - 5,147 words.

Fires nearby

14 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Loomis between 2002 and 2018, burning about 64 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 burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Other causes	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
7 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 May 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9666
4 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 March 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7609
23 March 2017	Other causes	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7568
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 900 shown

Museums hold 900 specimens collected within 10 miles of Loomis between 1829 and 1975: 588 Plantae, 199 Animalia, 111 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829	1829	J.R. Paddock
Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763	1839	J.R. Paddock
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.	1835	E. Wilkinson	Ohio
Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.	1837	B. Frank	Ohio
Carex × sullivantii Boott	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Ohio
Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.	1843	D. Sullivan
Euphorbia maculata L.	1844	S. B. Mead	Ohio
Jungermannia sullivantii Austin	1844	W. S. Sullivant
Carex gracilescens Steud.	1847	G. B. Ashcroft	Ohio
Carex stricta Lam.	1853	E. L. Moseley	Ohio
Cylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull.	1863	D. Sullivan

All 900 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lamira	1.1 miles	17
Belmont	1.6 miles	12
Lloydsville	3.0 miles	17
Great Western	3.3 miles	17
Bethesda	3.5 miles	12
Warnock	3.8 miles	17
Badgertown	3.9 miles	12
East Richland	4.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048934. 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.