McConnelsville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• McConnelsville Historic Districtlisted 1979

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• Morgan County Home for the Insane, State Route 376, McConnelsvillefederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Morgan County Home, State Route 376, McConnelsvillefederal building survey, 5 photographs

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 11 records

• Adams HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1896
• Central HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1896
• First Baptist ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1917
• Herald PrintingPrinting, in the atlas of 1896
• Hoffman, G. J., TanneryTannery, in the atlas of 1896
• Methodist Episcopal ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1896
• Methodist P. ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1896
• Morgan HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1896
• Opera HallOpera House, in the atlas of 1896
• St. James Roman Catholic ChurchChurch, in the atlas of 1917
• Water Works Pump HouseWorks, in the atlas of 1917

McConnelsville fell from 1,784 to 1,667 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

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.

• 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000

History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Morgan Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of McConnelsville between 2012 and 2018, burning about 14 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Malta
• Lovell
• Neelysville
• Pennsville
• Chaneyville (historical)
• Hooksburg

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 466 specimens collected within 10 miles of McConnelsville between 1887 and 1974: 352 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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
	Cercis canadensis L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Gleditsia triacanthos L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.	1887	Morgan
	Leskea obscura Hedw.	1896	W. A. Kellerman
	Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)	1903	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1904	not recorded	Meigs Creek
	Merulius incarnatus Schwein.	1906	Collector unspecified	McConnellsville
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	B.R. Bales	Ringgold
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Ricker A. J.	MCCONNELSVILLE
	Ambystoma Tschudi, 1838	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio
	Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)	1927	F. N.	McConnelsville

All 466 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of McConnelsville: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McConnelsville in 3 storm reports in 1994: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

Every storm recorded in Morgan County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues spread across its run from 1871 to 1921, 29,527 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.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061495. 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.