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

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.

Peoli within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Peoli, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Peoli, surveyed 1909

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 county-history sources

2,378 words on this township

The 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.

Read the whole chapter on Washington Township.

Fires near this place

7 since 2005

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9245
3 April 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15689
16 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9247
18 March 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13705
2 October 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9251

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 152 shown

Regional 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Paxina hispida (Schaeff.) SeaverPaxina hispida (Schaeff.) Seaver1935Cooke, William BridgeRock House
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1960HoltNewcomerstown, 3.5 Mile NW Of junction Highway 21 & 258 on 21
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Micropterus salmoides, not of this specimenMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Notropis spilopterus, not of this specimenNotropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1928Trautman, 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 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Thunderstorm WindPeoli$5,000Harrison county sheriff received a report that there was damage to a roof in Peoli in Tuscarawas county.
November 2022FloodPeoli-Isolated creek flooding was reported along Phillips Fork Road, where a car got stuck.
February 2019FloodPeoli-The county emergency manager reported flooding along state route 258 in both directions between mile markers 16 and 21.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Berwyn (historical)2.9 miles17
Hartwood4.3 miles15
Gilmore4.4 miles15
Bernice5.0 miles14
West Chester5.0 miles16
Booth5.4 miles15
Elm (historical)6.0 miles15
Rock6.7 miles14

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.