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New Castle, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43716. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hunter quadrangle.

New Castle within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Castle, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Castle, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 printed 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of New Castle between 2011 and 2019, burning about 179 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5545
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12585
5 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources725
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15095
26 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4846
23 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7467
23 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources723

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 196 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 196 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Castle between 1884 and 1975: 177 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Cooke, W. B.; Cooke, V. G., Cusick, A.W. 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
Specimen of Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1971Cusick, A.W.disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1884Jones, J. (Jesse)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hylocichla mustelina, not of this specimenHylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Quiscalus quiscula, not of this specimenQuiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 18191885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Turdus migratorius, not of this specimenTurdus migratorius Linnaeus, 17661885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J.Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Blephilia hirsuta, not of this specimenBlephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth.1887Koenig, A.near Temperanceville
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica Linnaeus, 17581891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)2 miles south-east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melanerpes erythrocephalus, not of this specimenMelanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)1/2 mile east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)1/2 mi east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 196 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Castle in 2 storm reports in 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Castle$40,000The Department of Highways reported trees down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Castle$25,000Amateur radio reported a large tree and power lines down.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Somerton3.3 miles13
Hunter4.0 miles13
Hogsink4.7 miles12
Alledonia5.7 miles12
Boston6.5 miles13
Armstrongs Mills7.6 miles12
Speidel7.9 miles12
Clover Hill8.1 miles15

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 New CastleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134024The 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 1065114. 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.