Peoli, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43832. It stands on Colliers Hill. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 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
17 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.
- 1909 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:48000
- 1909 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Antrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Antrim 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
- 1961 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,378 words on this townshipThe History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Newtown was laid out in 1817 by Ananias Randall. The plat then made embraces forty lots, the full extent of its present bounds. It is situated in the northeast quarter of Section 21, near the southeast corner of the township. The first house was built by Samuel Hagans. Mr. Randall kept the first hotel in a two-story log building. William Peoples was the first blacksmith, also the first in the township. Joshua Brown was the first; store keeper; Madison Snyder was the first Postmaster, Robert Feaster the present one, the name of the office being Peoli. The first physician was an itinerant doctor, who later in life served a term in the Ohio Penitentiary. Dr. McPherson was his successor at Newtown. The growth of the village has not been commensurate with its age. It now contains three stores, a wagon shop, a shoe shop, a blacksmith shop, and two churches - a Disciple and a Methodist Episcopal.
Passage source: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
7 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Peoli between 2005 and 2020, burning about 16 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9245 |
| 3 April 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15689 |
| 16 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.8 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9247 |
| 18 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13705 |
| 2 October 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9251 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 152 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 152 specimens collected within 10 miles of Peoli between 1928 and 1973: 101 Animalia, 32 Fungi, 19 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Borror, D.J. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Paxina hispida (Schaeff.) Seaver | 1935 | Cooke, William Bridge | Rock House |
![]() | Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798) | 1960 | Holt | Newcomerstown, 3.5 Mile NW Of junction Highway 21 & 258 on 21 |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Notropis volucellus volucellus | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
![]() | Semotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek |
All 152 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peoli in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peoli | $5,000 | Harrison county sheriff received a report that there was damage to a roof in Peoli in Tuscarawas county. |
| November 2022 | Flood | Peoli | - | Isolated creek flooding was reported along Phillips Fork Road, where a car got stuck. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Peoli | - | The county emergency manager reported flooding along state route 258 in both directions between mile markers 16 and 21. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berwyn (historical) | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Hartwood | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Gilmore | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Bernice | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| West Chester | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Booth | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Elm (historical) | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Rock | 6.7 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049074. 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.




























