Panhandle, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45693. It stands on Gordon Run. The Survey maps it on the West Union quadrangle.
Then and now
1918 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 73 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
10 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.
- 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS West Union quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Union quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Union quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the 1900 county history
3,153 words on this townshipThe county history of 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Liberty Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 3,153 words.
Fires nearby
28 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Panhandle between 2003 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15287 |
| 21 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9916 |
| 7 May 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15184 |
| 1 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8005 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 600 shownMuseums hold 600 specimens collected within 10 miles of Panhandle between 1866 and 1975: 356 Animalia, 158 Fungi, 68 Plantae, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1879 | A. B. Seymour | Adams County |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Asplenium ruta-muraria L. | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt | 1866 | C. B. Dyer | |
![]() | Clavaria formosa Pers. | 1913 | Fulford, Margaret H. | Adams County, Ohio |
![]() | Craterellus Pers. | 1913 | Braun, E. Lucy | Adams County, Ohio |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
| Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1925 | E. L. Braun | West tributary of Beech Fork | |
| Crotalus horridus horridus | 1926 | Watters, G. T. (George Thomas) | Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio | |
![]() | Asplenium cryptolepis Fernald | 1927 | Braun, E. Lucy | Buzzard's Roost Rock |
![]() | Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1927 | not recorded | |
![]() | Cladonia cristatella Tuck. | 1927 | Muegel, Harry R. | Adams County, Ohio |
All 600 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Panhandle: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| West Union | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Eckmansville | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Bentonville | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Cherry Fork | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Whippoorwill | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Catbird | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Clayton | 5.9 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068993. 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.



















