BlockMount Ephraim, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Seneca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43779. It lies near Beatty Knob. The Survey maps it on the Sarahsville quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 12 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.
- 1909 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sarahsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Sarahsville quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,033 words on this townshipHistory of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Seneca Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first postoffice (Batesville by name) was established at Timothy Bates' mill prior to 1830. There was a weekly mail carried between Barnesville and McConnelsville. The only paper taken in the vicinity of Mount Ephraim was the St. Clairsville Gazette^ of which I^vi Keller was a subscriber. He had a box nailed on a tree, into which the carrier dropped his paper. William Van Meter was the first postmaster at Mount Ephraim.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
Ephraim Vorhies, a brother of Aaron, was the first settler in the vicinity of Mount Ephraim and was the founder of the village, which was named after him, also a moundshaped elevation near the town. Ilis brother Aaron located about a mile northeast, on the farm which his son Aaron still occupies, about 1815. They were worthy men and good citizens.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
George R. Rhodes was born in Noble County in 1881. At the age of fifteen he went to live with Michael Tribby, to learn the shoemaker's trade, and remained with him until twenty-two years of age. lie then engaged in business for himself at Mount Ephraim, his present location. In 1855 he married Leah Van Meter. Children : Tallitha C. (Hazard), Maggie (Hellyer), and Cleopatra. The family are membei's of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr. Rhodes is a trustee. He is justice of the peace at Mount Ephraim.
Passage source: History of Noble County, Ohio : with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men : Illustrated, published 1887.
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 Seneca Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.
Fires near this place
16 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Mount Ephraim between 2009 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15251 |
| 16 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15812 |
| 26 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15792 |
| 31 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16079 |
| 22 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11505 |
| 20 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12105 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 104 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 104 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Ephraim between 1860 and 1975: 84 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821 | 1916 | not recorded | |
 | Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878 | 1916 | not recorded | |
 | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1860 | unknown | state route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek |
 | Daedalea ambigua Berk. | 1902 | Lloyd C. G. | Glenwood |
 | Erysiphe polygoni DC. | 1912 | E. Bartholomew | Caldwell |
| Apidae | 1916 | not recorded | ||
 | Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 | 1916 | not recorded | |
 | Cuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
 | Goniodes Nitzsch, 1818 | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
 | Haematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
 | Melissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825) | 1916 | not recorded | |
 | Populus tremuloides Michx. | 1922 | Davis, H.A. | Marion |
All 104 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whigville | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Fredericksdale | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Mud Run | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Noble Cottage Area | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Lakeland | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Chaseville | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Steamtown | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Sarahsville | 3.8 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065068. 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.