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Newell Run, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Newport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45768. It stands on Newell Run. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle.

Newell Run within Washington County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The 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 sheet of Newell Run, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Newell Run, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Newport township, in the words of 1902.

1902, Newport Township

The Drowning Of Charles Haskell

The drowning of Charles Haskell is perhaps the most remarkable and the saddest case of this kind on record. Charles Haskell was, at the time of his tragic death, a respected citizen and a prominent member of the Baptist church. He resided near the river where he had his store. Saturday, July 23, 1831, he observed that some boats that he had secured to the Ohio shore were being blown by the wind towards the Virginia side.

Read the rest of this passage

In the 1902 county history

23,474 words on this township

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Newport Township covers scenery, blennerhassett's visit to mt. dudley, fruit-raising, newell's run uplift, coal banks, deserted derricks.

Read the chapter on Newport Township - 23,474 words.

Fires nearby

40 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Newell Run between 1992 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning16
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
22 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPOLECAT HOLLOW
30 August 2012Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - CYTEC
30 August 2012Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - MON POWER
10 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestSEVEN
8 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestKINDERHOOK
30 May 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryMCELROY RUN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 439 shown

Museums hold 439 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newell Run between 1897 and 1975: 382 Animalia, 40 Fungi, 17 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Hazen Wright, Albert Wright, Allison W Cusick; Marilyn Ortt 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 Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1932C. MayMarietta
Specimen of Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.1932L.W.R.J.Nursery, Marietta
Specimen of Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934)Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934)1938Claud Revere Neiswander
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias kleiniana, not of this specimenCyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Elliptio crassidens, not of this specimenElliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Fusconaia subrotunda, not of this specimenFusconaia subrotunda (I.Lea, 1831)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Ligumia recta, not of this specimenLigumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Obliquaria reflexa, not of this specimenObliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 18201897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta

All 439 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Newell Run in 1 storm report between 2013 and 2013: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2013Flash FloodNewell Run$25,000Rain amounts were estimated at 1.5 to 2.5 inches across portions of eastern Washington County. On the southern fringe of the area, the cooperative observer at Newport measured 1.6 inches. ||Small streams overflowed onto roads, causing minor damage. One example was Archers Fork in the Wayne National Forest. One half of a new modular home was destroyed along Archers Fork. The home had not yet been set on its foundation. It floated down the flooded stream and smashed against a bridge.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Newport2.2 miles20
Bevan2.5 miles20
Gracey3.8 miles19
Schley3.9 miles19
Murphy4.0 miles20
Yankeeburg4.0 miles19
Cow Run4.7 miles19
Lower Newport4.8 miles17

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 Newell RunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133366The 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 1076515. 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.