New England, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45778. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 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
14 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.
- 1904 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
30 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of New England between 2006 and 2020, burning about 92 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5926 |
| 5 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15774 |
| 7 June 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Wayne National Forest | EDDIE |
| 23 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 7.3 acres | Wayne National Forest | SCATTER |
| 15 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,127 shownMuseums hold 1,127 specimens collected within 10 miles of New England between 1896 and 1975: 937 Animalia, 129 Plantae, 52 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, A.D. Selby 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Athens County |
![]() | Ambrosia bidentata Michx. | 1969 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. | 1896 | Selby, A.D. | Caananville |
![]() | Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta | 1902 | Morse, M. (Max) | Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio |
| Melasmia Lév., 1846 | 1902 | Kellerman, W.A. | Athens | |
![]() | Erasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851) | 1905 | not recorded | |
| Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851) | 1905 | H.T. Osborn | ||
| Eratoneura ardens (McAtee, 1920) | 1905 | H.T. Osborn | ||
| Eratoneura campora (Robinson, 1924) | 1905 | not recorded | ||
| Eratoneura contracta (Beamer, 1931) | 1905 | H.T. Osborn | ||
| Eratoneura hartii (Gillette, 1898) | 1905 | H.T. Osborn |
All 1,127 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 2019The National Weather Service names New England in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | New England | $10,000 | US 50 was closed near Guysville due to a combination of flooding along creeks and streams that drain into the Hocking River and a land slide near State Route 329. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New England | $500 | A tree was blown down across Mush Run Road. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | New England | - | Three separate locations with tree contact resulted in approximately sixty customers without power. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canaanville | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Cole | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Stewart | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Guysville | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Kilvert | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Stringtown | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Broadwell | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Big Run | 3.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076505. 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.



















