BlockMorganville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43758. It stands on Hedgehog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rokeby Lock quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The 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 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.
- 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 Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
9,449 words on this townshipHistory 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 Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
William -1. Williams was born in Union Township in 1842. November 25, 1861 he enlisted in Company B., 62d (). V. I., in which lie served three years, becoming a veteran January 1, 1864, and participating in all the engagements of tin1 regiment, duly 18, 1863, in the charge on Fort Wagoner, he was shot through the thigh. Until wounded he did not lose a day either on account of sickness or furlough. August 16, 1864, at Deep Run, Va., he lost both his eyes from a gunshot wound. In January, 1865, he received his discharge because of the loss of his eyesight. For bravery in action he was given two medals of honor. The recipients of these medals were selected by vote of their comrades. He was married in 1864 to Margaret Pierce, who died in 1876. Children - Mary Louisa, Clarissa A. and Howard. In 1877 he married Clarissa Pierce. Children - Albert S., Sarah M., Rosa B., Walter S. and Grover Cleveland.
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
30, 1821, the pioneer voters of the township convened at the house of Garrett Caviner on the third day of December and proceeded to hold the election ordered. Lazarus Pierce, William Corner and Andrew Scott, acted as judges, George L. Corner and William Scott, as clerks. Nineteen pioneers cast their votes as follows: Tobias
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.
Fires near this place
16 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Morganville between 2013 and 2018, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 May 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | EAST |
| 6 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4729 |
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13507 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 711 |
| 1 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 343 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 343 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morganville between 1887 and 1973: 305 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 9 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 | ||
 | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
 | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
 | Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr. | 1908 | Coker W. C. | Chapel Hill |
 | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1911 | B.R. Bales | Ringgold |
All 343 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaneyville (historical) | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Halls Valley (historical) | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Joetown | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ringgold | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Rosseau | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Triadelphia | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Malta | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Shilling (historical) | 5.2 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076432. 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.