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New Guilford, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43843. The Survey maps it on the Walhonding quadrangle.

New Guilford within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 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 Guilford, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of New Guilford, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

6,114 words on this township

Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio :, published 1876; Historical of Coshocton County Ohio, published 1876 names this settlement in its chapter on Perry Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Dr. E. G. Lee, the first physician in the towhship, came from Mount Vernon, and laid out a town called J^ew Guilford. Calvin Ilill, also from Mount Vernon, built a storeroom on one of the lots, and kept the first store. The next year David McIIenry opened a hatter's shop.

Passage source: Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio :, published 1876.

Soon after ISTew Guilford was laid out, John Conway, who owned the quarter section of land next east of that on which Guilford was located, started a town on his land, calling it Claysville. The rivalry between the towns was disastrous to both. After some years, they were consolidated under the name of East Union by act of the Legislature. The plat of ISTew Guilford is now all used for farming purposes, having been practically vacated.

Passage source: Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio :, published 1876.

Soon after New Guilford was laid out, John Conway, who owned the quarter section of land next east of that on which Guilford was located, started a town on his land, calling it Claysville. The rivalry between the towns was disastrous to both. After some years, they were consolidated under the name of East Union by act of the Legislature. The plat of New Guilford is now all used for farming purposes, having been practically vacated.

Passage source: Historical of Coshocton County Ohio, published 1876.

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 Perry Township.

Fires near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of New Guilford between 2009 and 2020, burning about 12 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5565
13 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15234
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11170
1 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources766
4 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15877
28 November 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9472

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 405 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 405 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Guilford between 1924 and 1974: 387 Animalia, 18 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Stein, Cavender, M. (Marlin), D M SEVER 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 Celastrina ladon, not of this specimenCelastrina ladon (Cramer, 1782)1924Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Bedford Twp., Coshocton Co., OH
A photograph of the species Encoptolophus sordidus, not of this specimenEncoptolophus sordidus (Burmeister, 1838)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Melanoplus differentialis, not of this specimenMelanoplus differentialis (Thomas, 1865)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Scudderia furcata, not of this specimenScudderia furcata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 18781925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Tettigidea lateralis, not of this specimenTettigidea lateralis parvipennis (Harris, 1841)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Walhonding R., NW Newcastle Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding River, Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp

All 405 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of New Guilford: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coshocton County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Coshocton County QuarriesFlagstonePast Producer
Delaware Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Scott QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Guilford in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 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 Guilford$15,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Guilford$5,000Trees were reported to be blown down near the intersection of State Routes 206 and 541. Time of occurrence was estimated from radar.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindNew Guilford$5,000Trees down on County Rd 18 near State Rte 541.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Guilford$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Guilford$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Guilford$1,000A tree was reported down along County Road 402.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Guilford$1,000A tree was reported down along Route 422.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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
Newcastle3.1 miles12
Bluff (historical)4.7 miles11
Owls Town (historical)4.8 miles12
Walhonding4.8 miles12
West Carlisle4.9 miles11
Mohawk Village4.9 miles11
West Bedford5.0 miles11
Nellie5.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065117. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.