BlockMcKay, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44842. The Survey maps it on the Loudonville quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 82 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
9 surveys from 13 printed 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 Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
25,697 words on this townshipHistory of Ashland County, Ohio, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Green Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Phillips, and died March 18, 1845. He was the father I of six children - Elizabeth E., wife of John Coleman, who died in Wayne county, Ohio; Mary Etta, wife of James Miles, who died in Richland county, Ohio; Henry B., who married Mina Horn, and lives at McKay; Sarah A., wife of Samuel L. Paramore, who died in Richland county, Ohio; Carrie J.. wife of Joseph H. Harruper, who lives in .1 ondonville; Joshua M., who married Mary A. Hissem, and rued at McKay. H. B. Case, born in Plain township, Wayne county, Ohio, 1 )ecember 13, 1839, moved to Washington township, Holmes county, Ohio, in 1 850, and to Green township, Ashland count}-, Ohio, in 1836. He worked at marble cutting, clerked in a store, and taught school until the spring of 1863, when he purchased the i McKay store of A. B. Case, and married Mina Horn. He j is the father of five children, four sons and one daughter, ! viz.-. Dayton L., Albert P., Jessie, deceased, Frederick ! and Herbert. He continued business at McKay as merchant, postmaster, and notary public, until the fall of 1S72, when he left the business in the hands of 1. M. Case (who afterwards became has partner in the McKay store) to engage in the clothing business with J. C. Pell, j of Koudonville, Ohio. lit the spong of 1873 he moved ! with his family to Eoudorwilie, and remained in the j clothing business until 1S79, when he returned to Me- j Kay to take charge of the store (his brother, J. M. Case, j having died), where he still continues as merchant and j postmaster.
Passage source: History of Ashland County, Ohio, published 1880.
Ezekij t. Moores, jr., was born in Monroe county, i Ohio, in 1842, and came to Ashland county with his : father, in 1850, where he received a common school education. In 1 86 r he enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Captain Orlow Smith, as a private, : but was appointed corporal, and afterwards was promoted to first sergeant in die same year, and, for meritorious j conduct at tlye battle of Stone River, was promoted to 1 the rank of first lieutenant January 1, 1863. On July 10, | 1864, he was promoted to the rank of captain, which j place he held until his discharge, which occurred on the El Paso plains, in Texas, in r 8 6 6 . He was engaged in the j battles of Pittsburgh Landing; luka, Mississippi; Perrys ville, Kentucky; Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary I Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Muddy | Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, ! Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station, Spring Hill, Franklin, ' and Nashville. In 1866 he married Lydia Smith, of ; McKay, and in 1867 moved to Jefferson county, Illinois, | where he remained ten years. While there lie was county j commissioner for three years, deputy clerk of the su ; preme court of the southern distiict of Illinois eighteen j months, and also held several minor offices. In 1 C 7 7 he J returned to his old home in Lake township, Ashland j county, Ohio, where he still remains, and is engaged in j farming. In 1880 he was elected township trustee, and | appointed census enumerator. In politics he is a Repub- j bean. He is the father of three children: Adella, Net- j
Passage source: History of Ashland County, Ohio, published 1880.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
8 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of McKay between 2015 and 2020, burning about 177 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8808 |
| 5 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8013 |
| 24 March 2015 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1093 |
| 20 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 171 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 484 |
| 17 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1092 |
| 27 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11609 |
| 27 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13545 |
| 9 January 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15379 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 723 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 723 specimens collected within 10 miles of McKay between 1896 and 1975: 683 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A.E. Daugherty, Auten, M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin | 1923 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | near Londonville |
 | Agastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze | 1896 | not recorded | Lakeville |
 | Coreopsis tripteris L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Decodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Polygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Pontederia cordata L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1897 | Smith, D. W. | Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA |
 | Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult. | 1897 | Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley | Vermilion Township |
 | Agnetina flavescens (Walsh, 1862) | 1899 | R. C. Osburn | Loudonville |
| Neoperla mainensis Banks, 1948 | 1899 | not recorded | Loudonville | |
 | Perlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839) | 1899 | R.C. Osburn | |
 | Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838) | 1900 | Fuller, W. J. | Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA |
All 723 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McKay: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youngs S & G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohicanville | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hayesville | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Loudonville | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Widowville | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Perrysville | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| McZena | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Idlewood Cottage Area | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Fork | 6.1 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061494. 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.