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Meigs, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bristol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43756. It stands on Bear Run. The Survey maps it on the McConnelsville quadrangle.

Meigs within Morgan County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Meigs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Meigs, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 printed 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

17,067 words on this township

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 Bristol Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

John Ryan was one of the early pioneers of Ohio. He was born in York County, Pa., in 1782. When seventeen years of age he came to Belmont County, whence lie emigrated to Bristol in 1837. He married Miss Gerretta Mercer in 1827. She was born in Pennsylvania in 1795, and died in 1867; her husband in 1869. A son, Jesse Ryan, is one of the prominent farmers of the county, and resides in Bloom Township.

Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.

Zacliariah Peddicord was born in Brooke County. West Virginia, and came to Morgan County with his father, Dorsey Peddicord, in 1831. The elder Peddicord settled on the farm where his son Zacliariah now resides. He resided upon this place until his decease, which occurred in 1853, at the age of seventy-six. He was the father of eleven children, by two marriages. Zachariah married Miss Laura E., daughter of Thomas Murphy, who came to Bristol from Loudon County, Virginia, about 1820. He settled near where Mount Zion Church now is. He married a sister of Archie McCollum, one of the pioneers of the township. Mr. Murphy died in 1846.

Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.

One of the earliest routes of travel was the so-called Federal Trail, said to have been made by a portion of Gen. St. Clair's army, who were unable to obtain boats for transportation to Fort Washington. The trail commenced at Grave Creek, on the Ohio River, and running westward crossed Dye's Fork of Meigs Creek at Renrock, then divided, one branch crossing Bristol Town- ship through Sandhollow and passing through the northeast corner of Bloom, and thence into Muskingum County, crossing the Muskingum River at Gaysport.

Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.

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 Bristol Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.

Fires near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Meigs between 2012 and 2015, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
31 March 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources701
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 457 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 457 specimens collected within 10 miles of Meigs between 1887 and 1974: 362 Animalia, 86 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas 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 Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
Leskea obscura Hedw.1896W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1903not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1904not recordedMeigs Creek
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus Schwein.1906Collector unspecifiedMcConnellsville
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.MCCONNELSVILLE
Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)1927F. N.McConnelsville
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recordedMcConnelsville
Bezzia Kieffer, 18991927not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Dasyhelea Kieffer, not of this specimenDasyhelea Kieffer, 19111927not recordedMcConnelsville
Forcipomyia Meigen, 18181927not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Hybopsis Agassiz, not of this specimenHybopsis Agassiz, 18541927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Muskingum River, at McConnelsvile, ~0.3 mi E of Malta, Morgan township

All 457 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Meigs: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D-K PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Industrial Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
D-K PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Industrial Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ohio Power PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bristol2.4 miles14
Cabinville (historical)2.8 miles14
Cloud (historical)2.9 miles13
Airington (historical)3.5 miles13
Rowland (historical)3.7 miles13
Otho (historical)4.2 miles14
Neelysville4.4 miles13
Brill (historical)4.6 miles14

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 MeigsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24892126The 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 1084018. 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.