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Moultrie, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44657. The Survey maps it on the Homeworth quadrangle.

Moultrie within Columbiana County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moultrie, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Moultrie, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

42,133 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on West Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

On the 5th day of May, 1805, John Hahn, Jr., a native of Maryland, with two hired men, John Roger and Ludwick Bates, settled on section 8. Mr. Hahn brought a wife, but no children, to the township. They have had born to them since that time fourteen sons and daughters, most of whom died in infancy. John, the only surviving child of the family, lives at Moultrie, in West township.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

The hamlet of Moultrie was laid out in sections 7 and 8, Feb. 7, 1853. The survey was made in September, 1851. It comprised twenty-four lots, each 60 by 120 feet in size. John Foulks was proprietor of the lands; the survey was made by J. G. Williard. The village is located on the line of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, to the erection of which it is indebted for its being. A store, mill, blacksmith- and wagon-shop comprise the business industries of the place. Its population is about 75.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

1853, to April, 1864 ; has held the office of township treasurer five years, and clerk of the township two years. In politics is a Republican. The father of Mrs. Hime (John Crisinger) was born Jan. 8, 1806, in Somerset Co., Pa. Within a year after his birth his father moved to Columbiana Co., Ohiu, and settled near Dungannon, on section 35, in Hanover township. John Crisinger resided here with his father until 1840, when he purchased one hundred acres of land in the northwest part of section 33, in Knox township, Columbiana Co., and resided there until 1873 ; he then sold his farm and purchased a house and lot in Moultrie, where he died of paralysis, August, 1874, in the sixtyninth year of his age. During his residence in Knox township he held the offices of township trustee and township treasurer. In the early part of his life he united with the Lutheran church ; in later life he joined the Presbyterian. Politically a Democrat. In 1826 he married Salome Lindesmith, who is yet living. Had seven children, - four sons and three daughters, - two sons and three daughters yet living.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

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 West Township.

Fires near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Moultrie between 2005 and 2020, burning about 9 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15729
12 April 2005Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15944
6 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15931
22 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15359
20 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15988
19 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15993

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 258 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 258 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moultrie between 1878 and 1967: 174 Animalia, 83 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., Catherine D. Hemphill 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 Tringa semipalmata, not of this specimenTringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanOhio Valley
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1883not recordedBeloit
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lampsilis cardium, not of this specimenLampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 18201893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Viola L., not of this specimenViola L.1897Holzinger, J.M.Winona County.
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1906Sterki, VictorSebring
Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1906Sterki, VictorSebring
Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)1906Sterki, VictorSebring

All 258 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Chambersburg2.2 miles18
Homeworth2.7 miles18
Bayard3.2 miles18
Town And Country Park Estates3.4 miles14
Reading3.4 miles18
East Rochester4.0 miles14
New Alexander4.1 miles14
Bridgewater4.9 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 MoultrieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134004The 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 1048986. 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.