Perryton, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43822. It stands on Priest Run. The Survey maps it on the Perryton quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1966The same ground, surveyed 56 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
5 surveys from 10 printed 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.
- 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
12,794 words on this townshipHistory of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Perry Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Denman's cross-roads was surveyed into lots and regularly laid out, but has not prospered, and contains half a dozen families, more or less. The business is comprised in a store, kept by Mr. L. V. Hoyt, a blacksmith shop and a shoe shop.
Passage source: History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
28 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Perryton between 2011 and 2020, burning about 54 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8807 |
| 24 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9047 |
| 27 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9045 |
| 16 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1842 |
| 7 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5226 |
| 3 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8628 |
| 12 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15744 |
| 24 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15693 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 350 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 350 specimens collected within 10 miles of Perryton between 1893 and 1974: 334 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt. | 1893 | Jones, H.L. | Toboso |
![]() | Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr. | 1894 | Bogue, E.E. | Black Hand |
![]() | Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Mills, W. C. | Mt. Vernon, 1 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Lysimachia quadriflora Sims | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
![]() | Smilax herbacea L. | 1894 | Moseley, E.L. | Licking Gorge |
![]() | Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1896 | Parker, J. B. | Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) | Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1897 | Parker, J. D. | Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Polioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1897 | Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) | Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Vireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1897 | Williamson, E. G. | Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Coccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811) | 1898 | Parker, J. D. | Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | Parker, J. P. | Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA |
All 350 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Perryton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frazeysburg Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Frazeysburg Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryton in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Tilton Crossroads | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Fallsburg | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Boston | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Rocky Fork | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Hanover | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Frampton | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Rain Rock | 5.8 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057919. 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.
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.
















