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Maynard, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Colerain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43950. It stands on Sloan Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clairsville quadrangle.

Maynard within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Maynard, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Maynard, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

5,147 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Colerain Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Colerain township was organized in 1808 and was named by Scotch-Irish citizens after a pretty little village in the north of Ireland, which the writer has visited, called Colerain, from the neighborhood of which the majority of these first settlers emigrated.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

The township contains 15,361 acres of fertile land, which is underlaid by a valuable vein of coal, that has proven a fertile source of income to the extensive mining companies now in operation at Barton, Maynard and Crescent, affording employment to hundreds of miners in these prosperous mining towns.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

Barton is a village of a few hundred inhabitants on the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway, near the junction of the St. Clairsville branch. It sustains a school, two churches and post office. One of the churches is a branch of the Methodist Protestant with Rev. B. L. Murphy as pastor. The other as elsewhere stated is a Catholic Church, conducted by Rev. Mr. Weigand of Bridgeport. The school, which is largely attended, is conducted by Wilson Dungan assisted by Olive Mitchell. The population is largely mining and the new mines now being opened at Barton by the Osborn people will employ 800 men when they are in full operation. The tipple will he located up the Run about half a mile from the station and special tracks will have to be run to it. This will increase the population of Barton very greatly. The Maple Hill mines have already given contracts for 35 new houses for the use of the men and many more will be built in the near future.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

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 Colerain Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Maynard between 2003 and 2020, burning about 19 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15252
23 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9667
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12685
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12065
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15448
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11238

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,269 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,269 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maynard between 1800 and 1975: 1,020 Plantae, 124 Animalia, 123 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829Racodium E.M.Fries, 18291829J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631839J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 1860Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 18601975not recorded
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1800Guttenberg, G.near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Robinia L., not of this specimenRobinia L.1829Guttenberg, G.Wheeling
A photograph of the species Persicaria virginiana, not of this specimenPersicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.1835E. WilkinsonOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1837B. FrankOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sullivantii, not of this specimenCarex × sullivantii Boott1842W. S. SullivantOhio
A photograph of the species Homalothecium subcapillatum, not of this specimenHomalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.1843D. Sullivan
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1844S. B. MeadOhio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Carex gracilescens, not of this specimenCarex gracilescens Steud.1847G. B. AshcroftOhio

All 1,269 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Blainesville0.5 miles17
Crescent1.1 miles18
Kinsman1.5 miles17
Midway1.5 miles17
Highland Terrace1.7 miles17
Wheeling Valley (historical)2.2 miles17
Barton2.3 miles18
Provident2.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1082167. 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.