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

Oco, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wheeling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43950. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clairsville quadrangle.

Oco within Belmont 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 Oco, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oco, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

In the 1903 county history

2,022 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wheeling Township covers township organization, population and tax levy, numerous mills of the pioneer days, some of the early settlers, the first elections, township officials.

Read the chapter on Wheeling Township - 2,022 words.

Fires nearby

14 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Oco between 2002 and 2020, burning about 53 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15252
24 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15821
9 May 2017Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9666
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12685
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 151 shown

Museums hold 151 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oco between 1877 and 1974: 133 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, CL & LC Hubbs, Collector(s): Jim L. Hayward; Preparator(s): Jim L. Hayward 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 Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1971Cusick, A.W.disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
A photograph of the species Hamamelis virginiana, not of this specimenHamamelis virginiana L.1877Guttenberg, G.St. Clairsville Rd
A photograph of the species Fragaria americana, not of this specimenFragaria americana (Porter) Britton1878Guttenberg, G.St. Clairsville
A photograph of the species Fragaria virginiana, not of this specimenFragaria virginiana Mill.1878Guttenberg, G.St. Clairsville
A photograph of the species Rubus odoratus, not of this specimenRubus odoratus L.1878Guttenberg, G.S of Clairsville
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1884Jones, J. (Jesse)Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hylocichla mustelina, not of this specimenHylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Quiscalus quiscula, not of this specimenQuiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 18191885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Turdus migratorius, not of this specimenTurdus migratorius Linnaeus, 17661885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J.Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 151 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Donnersville1.0 miles17
Lafferty1.2 miles12
Bannock1.3 miles17
Uniontown1.5 miles17
Crabapple2.4 miles17
Great Western2.6 miles17
Lloydsville2.7 miles17
East Richland3.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1082174. 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.