Osage, Ohio
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43964. The Survey maps it on the Knoxville quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
23 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.
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
25 since 2004The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Osage between 2004 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1781 |
| 3 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11805 |
| 9 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7832 |
| 7 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15619 |
| 2 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4129 |
| 17 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2530 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 702 shownMuseums hold 702 specimens collected within 10 miles of Osage between 1836 and 1974: 421 Animalia, 237 Plantae, 44 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Vitis aestivalis Michx. | 1836 | Jewett | |
![]() | Puccinia monardae J.W.Baxter | 1896 | Ashcraft | Near Middleburg |
![]() | Polygonum erectum L. | 1902 | Kellerman, W.A. | Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio |
![]() | Carex hirsutella Mack. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Dichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Elymus hystrix L. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Galium circaezans Michx. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | near Steubenville |
![]() | Hypericum mutilum L. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Hypericum punctatum Lam. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
![]() | Luzula echinata (Small) F.J.Herm. | 1877 | Mertz, H.N. | Steubenville |
All 702 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
4 since 2014The National Weather Service names Osage in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osage | $5,000 | Multiple trees were reported to be blown down across the county. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osage | - | The public reported that the wind brought down large limbs and branches. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Osage | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Osage | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knoxville | 2.5 miles | 23 | |
| Island Creek | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| New Somerset | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Holt | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Mellwood Acres | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Taylortown | 3.5 miles | 23 | |
| Richmond | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Lake Lodge | 4.0 miles | 23 |
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 Osage | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134076 | 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 1051053. 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.


































