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

Morristown, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1962. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43759. The Survey maps it on the Bethesda quadrangle. 248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Morristown within Belmont County

Population over time

2 figures

Morristown fell from 303 to 248 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. 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	303
2020	248	-55 (-18%)

Then and now

1903 to 1962

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morristown, surveyed 1962

Topographic sheet of Morristown, surveyed 1903

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

3,991 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Major Lippincott and 'Squire William Barber, in succession. Of this long list of pioneers, 'Squire William Barber alone remains. Mr. Barber was born in the north of Ireland, 91 years ago, and removed, with his parents to Morristown when but a babe, where he still abides, and can recall many pleasing incidents of the olden time.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

F. Cummings made a tour through Belmont County in 1807, and his description of the country through which he passed is very interesting to the reader today. In relation to Morristown, he says: "Ten miles- further brought me to Morristown, through a. similar hilly country, with a succession of woods and farms, the latter at every mile, and a tavern at every two miles.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

The Presbyterian Church of Morristown was organized September 25, 1824, at the home of Dr. Alexander Gaston. The first regnlar pastor was Rev. William McMillan. Previous to the church organization, services were held twice a month in the homes of the various members, conducted by Rev. Abram Scott.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

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 Union Township - it names this place 14 more 14 times.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Morristown between 2002 and 2014, burning about 39 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
7 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 March 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:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 212 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 212 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morristown between 1877 and 1975: 152 Animalia, 49 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
Hamamelis virginiana L.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville Rd
Fragaria americana (Porter) Britton	1878	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville
Fragaria virginiana Mill.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	St. Clairsville
Rubus odoratus L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	S of Clairsville
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1884	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J.	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 212 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morristown in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$150,000	Emergency management and a trained spotter reported trees down in Morristown, structural damage to the roof of a house and a barn near SR 149 southeast of Morristown, and trees and power lines down south of Belmont.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Morristown	$100,000	Law enforcement reported flash flooding on numerous roads in Belmont and areas south of town. Numerous roads closed with water on property.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$50,000	A trained spotter reported numerous large trees down and a large tree on a house in Morristown.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$50,000	Emergency management reported trees down in Morristown.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$25,000	A newspaper reported the collapse of baseball dugouts and fencing at a Morristown highschool. The baseball bleachers were also blown over.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$10,000	Multiple trees were reported to be snapped and uprooted.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$8,000	Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees, some 2 to 3 feet in diameter. A trailer roof was blown off and power lines were downed.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$6,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed a garage under construction. Several large trees were also downed.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$1,000	A tree was reported to be downed on Morristown Flushing Road.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Morristown	$1,000	Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds near Morristown.
September 2009	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Morristown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Badgertown	2.3 miles	12
Belmont	3.0 miles	12
Egypt	3.2 miles	13
Bethesda	3.2 miles	12
Lloydsville	4.1 miles	17
Loomis	4.2 miles	12
Olivett	4.4 miles	13
Lafferty	4.4 miles	12

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 Morristown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q527044	The 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 1065060. 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.

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.