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

McArthur, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Elk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45651. It stands on Puncheon Fork. The Survey maps it on the McArthur quadrangle. 1,783 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

McArthur within Vinton County

Population over time

2 figures

McArthur grew from 1,701 to 1,783 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,701
20201,783+82 (+5%)

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McArthur, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of McArthur, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

24 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of McArthur between 2007 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
14 September 2015Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1801
28 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4647
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11525
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4066
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources683
8 March 2014Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,320 shown

Museums hold 1,320 specimens collected within 10 miles of McArthur between 1878 and 1975: 1,250 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 1,320 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 1995

The National Weather Service names McArthur in 1 storm report between 1995 and 1995: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995HailMcArthur-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vinton County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
M'arthur Democrat1853 to 1865

What the paper printed

14,716 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 3 issues spread across its run from 1855 to 1855, 14,716 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1855-03-16M'arthur Democrat4,606 words
1855-06-01M'arthur Democrat6,161 words
1855-11-15M'arthur Democrat3,949 words

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
Vinton2.2 miles13
Elk Fork2.6 miles15
Red Diamond2.7 miles15
Dundas3.0 miles13
Prattsville4.7 miles13
Creola4.8 miles15
Zaleski5.1 miles15
Ural (historical)5.3 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on McArthurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1812530The 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 1076353. 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.

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.