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Newport, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paint Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43140. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Run quadrangle. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1907 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 79 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
11 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.
- 1907 USGS London quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS London quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Walnut Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Walnut Run quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
4,589 words on this townshipHistory of Madison County, Ohio : Its People, Industries and Institution with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Paint Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Rev. William Sutton, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, it is believed, was born in Virginia, but became a settler of Paint township about 1810, locating on the Hume land. He married Hannah Coberly. I-Ie resided here but a few years, when, as a Methodist minister, he had to adopt an itinerant life; but the greater part of his life was spent in the service of the ministry within Madison county. Lewis Higgins, a native of Virginia, settled on the Hume tract about 1811. Reuben Gregg, a native of Virginia, emigrated to Chillicothe in 1810, and to Madison county in 1811, locating in Paint township, about half a mile below where the village of Newport is now situated. He married Phoebe Harpole, and remained a resident here until his death. Thomas Coberly, also a native of Virginia, emigrated to Ohio and, about 1810, purchased one hundred acres of land in Paint township, upon which he located and where he resided until his death. James Chapman was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1801. In 181G he became a settler of Paint township, and later married Ann Chapman, likewise a native of Virginia, by whom he had nine children.
Passage source: History of Madison County, Ohio : Its People, Industries and Institution with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915.
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 Paint Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 220 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 220 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newport between 1889 and 1972: 206 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. Fink, B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward, Betz, E. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Chimarra obscura (Walker, 1852) | 1898 | Scott O'Dee | |
 | Chrysops cincticornis Walker, 1848 | 1902 | not recorded | |
 | Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838 | 1902 | not recorded | |
 | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1889 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Spizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1893 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Buteo Lacepede, 1799 | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Otus asio (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812) | 1896 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | London, Madison, Ohio, USA |
 | Ptilostomis ocellifera (Walker, 1852) | 1898 | Scott O'Dee |
All 220 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Newport: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Jefferson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Newport | $60,000 | The tornado appears to have touched down at a farm on Roberts Mill Road, where several barns sustained heavy damage. These barns had complete roof removal and the collapse of exterior walls. Barn roofing and wall material was thrown west- northwest across Roberts Mill Road into the tops of trees of adjacent properties, and strewn across fields on the west side of Roberts Mill Road. The damage is consistent with wind speeds around 85 mph.||Other barn damage observed on State Route 38 south of Newport, Old Xenia Road SW south of London, and on State Route 56 southeast of London, was all determined to be nontornadic with no conclusive components of typical tornado damage. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newport | $15,000 | A hay barn was destroyed and a power pole was snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newport | $10,000 | Barn damage was observed on Old Xenia Road. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newport | $10,000 | Barn damage was observed on State Route 38 south of Newport. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Newport | - | High water was reported along several roads across the county. |
| July 2019 | Flood | Newport | - | High water was reported along a portion of Old Xenia Road. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newport | - | An area of corn a couple of miles long was flattened. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Newport | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| London Terrace | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| London | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Elmhurst | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Florence | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Brooks Edge | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Sheffield Commons | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Chrisman | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Hyde Park | 4.9 miles | 14 |
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 Newport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14716754 | The 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 1065147. 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.
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.