Mabee Corner, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45656. It stands on Little Bucklick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 69 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
10 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.
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
25 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mabee Corner between 2006 and 2019, burning about 247 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | SUPERIOR 3 |
| 24 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 128 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | JACKSON FURNACE |
| 9 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 400 shownMuseums hold 400 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mabee Corner between 1899 and 1975: 172 Plantae, 115 Animalia, 108 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., Beach, S. (Sam), Bryant, J. 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 |
![]() | Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Polyporus semipileatus Peck | 1928 | Walter Phillips | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | 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 |
| unnamed | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch | |
![]() | Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
| Cephalozia media Lindb. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch | |
![]() | Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
All 400 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mabee Corner: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comer Quarry and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Oak Hill Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Oak Hill Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
4 since 2020The National Weather Service names Mabee Corner in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabee Corner | $8,000 | Trees were blown down onto Route 279 and Route 139 near the town of Mabee Corner. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mabee Corner | $3,000 | Multiple trees were blown down in Hamilton Township, taking down power and phone lines. |
| February 2022 | Flood | Mabee Corner | $500 | All lanes of State Route 139 were closed due to high water from Spruce Hollow Road down to State Route 279. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Mabee Corner | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCoy | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Grahamsville | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Horeb | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Monroe | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Petersburg | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Four Mile | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Blackfork Junction | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Banner | 7.2 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070828. 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.



















