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

Martinsville, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44654. The Survey maps it on the Berlin quadrangle. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Martinsville within Holmes County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Martinsville, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Martinsville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

11 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Martinsville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
18 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12567
10 May 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	TR 128
13 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	14986
12 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 February 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12566

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 222 shown

Museums hold 222 specimens collected within 10 miles of Martinsville between 1890 and 1974: 186 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, B. Fink 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
Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1896	Wetzstein, A.	Fryburg
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind	1914	B. Fink
Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Collector(s): unknown	Millesburg
Arachnion album Schwein.	1893	A. P. Morgan
Schizophyllum commune Fr.	1901	A. D. Selby	Millersburg
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Quercus rubra L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.
Salix alba L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.

All 222 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Martinsville: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Holmes 241 Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
241 Limestone Plant & Quarry	Clay	Producer
Holmes 241 Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Holmes 241 Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Brothers Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fair Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Feikert Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Feikert Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Holmesville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jones S & G Holmesville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Benton	1.4 miles	16
Fryburg	2.3 miles	16
Huston (historical)	2.7 miles	17
Holmesville	3.2 miles	18
Mount Hope	4.5 miles	16
Millers Corners	4.7 miles	16
Millersburg	4.9 miles	17
Bunker Hill	5.3 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q35725542

The 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 1062879. 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.