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

Moore, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Tiffin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45693. It stands on Cedar Run. The Survey maps it on the Lynx quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Moore within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

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 Moore (historical), surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Moore (historical), surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

7,452 words on this township

History of Adams County, Ohio, published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Tiffin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Stone Chapel - The society from which this church sprung was nearly contemporaneous with that at Moore's on Scioto Brush Creek. In 1797 Joseph Moore organized a class in Methodism at Isaac Wamsley's on Ohio Brush Creek with Simon Fields as leader. The first meeting house, constructed from logs in 1802, was known as Fields*. It was afterwards known as Bnrkett's, and later upon the erection of the present structure, "Stone Chapel." There is a graveyard there, but owing to a thick ledge of stone lying near the surface of the ground, it is not used much as a place of burial.

Passage source: History of Adams County, Ohio, published 1900.

January 16, 1804, the Commissioners having made their report, recommending a site about one-half mile south of Zane's Trace, on lands owned by Robert McClanahan. and near the central portion of the county, an act was passed to locate the county seat there permanently. The act provide! for the purchase of the lands of McClanahan and others adjoining to an amount not exceeding 150 acres at eight dollars per acre, by the Associate Judges of the county and to be paid for out of the county treasurv on their order ; the title to said lands to be vested in a Board of Trustees, comix)sed of Nathaniel Beasley, William Marshall, Salathiel Sparks, Aaron Moore, Benjamin Wood, William Collings and John r»riggs. This hoard was required to appoint a Clerk and a Surveyor, and to j)rocee(l to lay off lots with convenient streets for the new town to be named West I'nion. and to make and record a plat of the same. Notice of the sale of lots was rccjuircd to be published for thirty days in the Scioto Ga/rcfte, of Chillicothe. The County Commissioners were empowered to dispose of county property at Washington. When the number of lot owners reached thirty, they were required to meet and elect a new Board of Trustees to succeed the board appointed by the act. Members of the Board were elected annually thereafter.

Passage source: History of Adams County, Ohio, published 1900.

Friday, March 30. Appeared A. Moore, B. Wood, N. Beasley, S. Sparks, William Marshall and William Collings, half-past ten o'clock A. M., and employed Robert McClanahan to assist them and then proceeded to survey and stake off the inlots until half-past five o'clock P. M., and then adjourned.

Passage source: History of Adams County, Ohio, published 1900.

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 Tiffin Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

19 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Moore (historical) between 2007 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
3 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	10106
1 July 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8465
26 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	10725
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	10726
8 March 2020	Recreation and ceremony	33 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15455
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15482
8 March 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	3654

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,063 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,063 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moore (historical) between 1866 and 1975: 540 Animalia, 367 Fungi, 129 Plantae, 27 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. J. Sharp 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1879	A. B. Seymour	Adams County
Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.	1900	W.A. Kellerman	Mineral Springs
Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W.A. Kellerman
Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
Stigmella platani Fuckel	1892	Kellerman W. A.	Mineral Springs
Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Kern W. A.	Mineral Springs
Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1925	Muegel, Harry R.	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,063 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lynx	1.9 miles	12
Cedar Mills	2.5 miles	12
Tulip	4.5 miles	15
Dunkinsville	4.6 miles	12
Whippoorwill	4.6 miles	10
Fawcett	4.9 miles	12
Scrub Ridge	5.1 miles	12
Blue Creek	5.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055885. 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.