New Castle, Ohio

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.

1905 1994

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.

• 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Hunter quadrangle1:24000

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of New Castle between 2011 and 2019, burning about 171 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Somerton
• Hogsink
• Hunter
• Boston
• Alledonia
• Centerville

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
	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
	Blephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth.	1887	Koenig, A.	near Temperanceville
	Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	2 miles south-east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	1/2 mile east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
	Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, 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.

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

Every storm recorded in Belmont County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

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.