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

Ohio Furnace, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45638. It lies in German Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Greenup quadrangle.

Ohio Furnace within Scioto County

Then and now

1926 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ohio Furnace, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Ohio Furnace, surveyed 1926

Compare 1926 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 county-history sources

7,694 words on this township

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903; History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Green Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Ohio Furnace was located about three miles from the Ohio river, was built in 1824, and went into blast the following year with John T. Woodrow as Superintendent with a force of fourteen men. It was built by Thomas W. Means and David Sinton and it was continued in blast until February 24, 1882, without a break except for repairs. It passed into the hands of Means, Kyle & Company, who still own the grounds and land belonging to the furnace. Some' traces of the furnace remain. A large quantity of coal and iron ore are mined on the furnace lands. The ore is used in Hamilton Furnace at Hanging Rock. The ore is taken to a place near Union landing by means of a tramway and is there loaded on Norfolk & Western cars. The furnace site, and all the land which belonged to Means, Kyle & Company, was sold to Rogers, Brown & Company, in 1900.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

At the meeting of the Commissioners, March 2, 1824, for the purpose of fixing the boundaries of the townships of the county, the lines of Green were established as follows: "Beginning at the mouth of Hale's Creek (now Pine Creek) on the Ohio river, then up said river to the Lawrence County line, then with said line to where said line leaves the back line of the French Grant; thence westerly to the corner between lots Nos. 58, 59, 71 and 70; thence northwesterly to the corner between lots Nos, 63, 64, 75 and 76; thence southwest with the line of lot No, 64 to the line between lots Nos. 51 and 64; thence northwesterly with the division lines of the lots to the lower line of French Grant; thence to the southeast corner of Section No, 22, in Range 20, Township No. 2: thence north one mile to the northeast corner of said section; thence west to Hale's Creek; thence down said creek to the place of beginning, which boundaries sall constitute Green Township." On March 2, 1882, Green's territory was curtailed to form a part of Harrison organized that year. In 1886, the farm of William Montgomery was taken from Green and included in Porter, In 1841, the boundary was changed so as to include that portion of the French Grant which had been within the boundary of Vernon since 1824. On June 10, 1848, the boundary on the northwest was established as it stands at present with the exception of a farm of forty acres, belonging to L. Benton which has since been transferred to Porter,

Passage source: History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio, published 1903.

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 Green Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Ohio Furnace between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,660 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Arson/incendiarism	20
Recreation and ceremony	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Other causes	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	GREEN GRASS
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BAILEY
20 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	HANGING ROCK SPUR A
10 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	250 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11905
10 September 1998	Smoking	5.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	PINE CR. 650/522
1 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	SNAP 2 FIRE
8 July 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	HANGING ROCK #1
2 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	BOLL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 112 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 112 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ohio Furnace between 1890 and 1970: 85 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Braun, E. Lucy, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Billy, G. (George) 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
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
Helmitheros vermivorum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1890	Edwin H. Eames	Culvertown
Alternaria Nees	1919	Ricker A. J.	Wheelersburg
Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Riker A. J.	Wheelersburg
Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	Riker A. J.	Wheelersburg
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	pond, near Pedro, Lawrence Co., Ohio
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township
Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Pine Creek, within Elizabeth township, near Bartles, Elizabeth township

All 112 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ohio Furnace: 5 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bush-Corn Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Franklin Furnace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Franklin Furnace Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Haverhill Plant & Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Hoods Run Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Smith Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto 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
Junior Furnace	1.9 miles	18
Haverhill	2.8 miles	18
Highland Park	4.0 miles	16
Powellsville	4.4 miles	16
Franklin Furnace	4.5 miles	16
Sand Hill	7.4 miles	16
Allentown	7.5 miles	16
Garden City	8.1 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122589641

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 1076549. 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.