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

Newville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Worthington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44864. It stands on Possum Run. The Survey maps it on the Lucas quadrangle.

Newville within Richland County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newville, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Newville, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 Worthington township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Richland County Ohio, published 1880 - Worthington Township

History

coarse features, high cheek-bones and large protruding lips, so much so, indeed. that. when ornamented with a miniature silver clevis and double-tree in each ear, and one in his nose. and smoking from the bow] and through the handle of his iron tomahawk, he presented rather a grotesque appearance. He was, in a word, regarded by the whites as extremely homely and repulsive.

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In the county-history sources

7,173 words on this township

History of Richland County Ohio, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Worthington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Among the most noted springs is one on the land now owned by the heirs of Abner Davis, two and a half miles southeast of Newville. This Mr. Davis was once robbed of $1,100 in gold, and recovered his money in a peculiar manner. 'Three men came to his house one bitter, cold night, before he had retired, and, presenting a pistol to his head, demanded his money. After getting the money, the robbers departed, and, becoming somewhat bewildered by the snow-storm, wandered about until two of them froze to death, and, when found, the third was badly frozen, but survived, and was afterward sent to the penitentiary. The money was all recovered.

Passage source: History of Richland County Ohio, published 1880.

The magnificent rocky country in the vicinity of Newville is, without doubt, the most interesting geographical feature in the county. In the early history of the country, these great rocks formed a secure retreat for the various wild animals, and dens for an immense number of yellow rattlesnakes. Hundreds of these reptiles have been seen and killed by the early settlers among these rocks. The bottoms along 'the Clear Fork are exceedingly rich, where they are extensive enough for farming purposes ; occasionally, however, the high rocky bluffs crowd the little stream into a narrow gorge, and the tiller of the soil must let these hills and rocks alone in their natural state forever. A narrow road borders the creek, clings to the hillside and

Passage source: History of Richland County Ohio, published 1880.

Hemlock Falls, a highly 'interesting and romantic natural curiosity, is situated about one and a half miles south of Newville, near the road leading to Danville, in Knox County, about one-half mile from the Clear Fork. This locality is noted as being the resort of Indians inearlier times, and, in later times, as the resort of pleasure parties and meetings of various kinds. In point of interest and simple beauty, the country and scenery about Hemlock Falls is hard to excel. The water pours over a precipice about seventy-five feet in height, not, however, perpendicularly, but at an angle of seventy-five or eighty degrees in a succession of cascades. There is evidence, however, that at one time the water poured over a precipice about fifty feet perpendicularly, the rock havying been worn away by the action of the water. One evidence of this is in the detached fragmentary masses lying scattered at the foot of the falls. At present, the water pours over a precipice of gradual descent about sixty feet. then makes a perpendicular leap fifteen feet to the fragmentary rocks beneath. Huge rocks, ragged and uneven, project from either side. The banks of the stream are fringed with hemlock-trees - hence the name. <A large one of these, standing on the verge of a projecting rock, looks as if it would be detached at any moment, and the traveler who has the nerve may hang out over a fearful abyss, by ascending this tree a short distance.

Passage source: History of Richland County Ohio, published 1880.

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 Worthington Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

16 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Newville between 2005 and 2019, burning about 15 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
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
20 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15257
16 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1122
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 April 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15167
13 April 2018	Natural	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	14465

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 131 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 131 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newville between 1879 and 1973: 124 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M.H., Aknown, C F WALKER 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Osmunda claytoniana L.	1896	Wilkerson, E.	Common in low grounds.
Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.
Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter, J.B.
Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	Porter, J.B.
Rallus limicola Vieillot, 1819	1881	A.M.H.
Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1882	not recorded
Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1924	not recorded	[state]
Boloria bellona (Fabricius, 1775)	1927	not recorded
Aglais milberti (Godart, 1819)	1929	Wilfred Hemingway
Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Clear Fork Mohican River, at Bellville, ~0.2 mi N of Bellville, Jefferson township
Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Clear Fork Mohican River, at Bellville, ~0.2 mi N of Bellville, Jefferson township
Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Clear Fork Mohican River, at Bellville, ~0.2 mi N of Bellville, Jefferson township

All 131 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newville in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Newville	-	Extensive tree damage near the junction of OH-95 and OH-603 between Newville and Perrysville.

Every storm recorded in Richland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Richland Cottage Area	2.1 miles	13
Saint Johns (historical)	2.3 miles	13
Hastings	3.6 miles	13
Butler	3.6 miles	14
Pinhook	3.6 miles	13
Culler Mill	4.6 miles	13
Coulter	4.8 miles	13
Melco	4.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049013. 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.