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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Newtown, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Short Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43907. It stands on South Fork Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harrisville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Newtown within Harrison County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newtown (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Newtown (historical), surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

Fires nearby

4 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Newtown (historical) between 2011 and 2016, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
19 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources981
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4005
18 February 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 16 shown

Museums hold 16 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newtown (historical) between 1889 and 1964: 13 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, H. Waters, L. Dickerson 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 Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Cyprinidae1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Brushy Fork, no more precise locality data, 3.6 miles southwest of Cadiz OH, Cadiz Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Arthropoda1934H. WatersHopedale, Plot 128
A photograph of the species Grapholita eclipsana, not of this specimenGrapholita eclipsana (Zeller, 1875)1934Waters, H.Hopedale
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis, not of this specimenGnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis (Riley, 1869)1964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Gnorimoschema salinaris, not of this specimenGnorimoschema salinaris Busck, 19111964Miller, W.E.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Verbena urticifolia, not of this specimenVerbena urticifolia L.1964Andrew R. MoldenkeCadiz

All 16 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newtown (historical): 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Central Div. Limestone Plant No. 13Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Limestone Plant & Mine ConsolStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Georgetown0.7 miles17
Hagan Addition1.5 miles17
Harrisville1.9 miles17
Duncanwood2.2 miles17
Belknap2.4 miles17
Chickwan2.4 miles17
Blairmont2.6 miles17
Belleve2.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067744. 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.