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

Piedmont, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Moorefield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43977. It stands on Plum Run. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Piedmont within Harrison County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Piedmont, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Piedmont, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Fires nearby

8 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Piedmont between 2003 and 2015, burning about 8 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
31 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1501
5 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
31 March 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 115 shown

Museums hold 115 specimens collected within 10 miles of Piedmont between 1889 and 1971: 67 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Buker, W.E. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Ulmus americana L.	1908	Fink, B.	USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Uncinula macrospora Peck	1908	Fink, B.	USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Oxalis stricta L.	1889	L. Dickerson
Solanum emulans Raf.	1889	L. Dickerson
Syrphidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA
Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Cyprinidae	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Brushy Fork, no more precise locality data, 3.6 miles southwest of Cadiz OH, Cadiz Township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Stillwater River, within Washington township, near Stillwater, Washington township
Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township

All 115 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Piedmont in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	$10,000	Numerous trees were reported to be down in the vicinity of Piedmont Lake Dam.
May 1996	Flash Flood	Piedmont	$10,000	no account filed
February 2022	Flood	Piedmont	$5,000	After heavy rain, multiple roads across the county became flooded. One notable example includes SR 331.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees along U.S. Route 22.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Piedmont	-	A cooperative observer reported that large limbs were snapped near Piedmont.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Piedmont	-	Local law enforcement reported two feet of water was covering U.S. Highway 22 in downtown Piedmont.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
East Piedmont	0.1 miles	14
Moorefield	1.6 miles	14
Smyrna	2.8 miles	14
Freeport	4.0 miles	16
Nottingham (historical)	4.3 miles	13
Clendening (historical)	4.5 miles	14
Cassville	5.8 miles	13
Tippecanoe	7.4 miles	14

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 Piedmont	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7191486	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 1061813. 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.