Plainview, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43793. It stands on Cowtail Run. The Survey maps it on the Antioch quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
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.
- 1905 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
6 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Plainview between 2013 and 2016, burning about 6 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 April 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4672 |
| 10 April 2013 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 769 |
| 28 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | TWENTY SIX |
| 23 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4669 |
| 1 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 397 shownMuseums hold 397 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plainview between 1860 and 1975: 373 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 8 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Taphrina sacchari Jenkins | 1922 | O.L. Inman | Antioch College |
![]() | Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat. | 1924 | L.L. Lehman | |
![]() | Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | Herbert R. Mooney | Woodsfield |
![]() | Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | David M. Dennis | 3 mi. N Graysville |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry. |
| unnamed (fossil) | 1914 | Collector Unknown | Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest) | |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1921 | Ortmann, Arnold E | Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1922 | Thompson W. H. | Woodsfield |
| Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd. | 1928 | Archer, W. A. | Greenbrier | |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township |
![]() | Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Ohio River tributary, within north of Fly in Jackson township, near Sistersville, Jackson township |
All 397 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2009The National Weather Service names Plainview in 1 storm report between 2009 and 2009: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Plainview | $50,000 | The local fire department reported power lines down in Graysville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antioch | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Mechanicsburg | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Hilltop | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Greenbrier | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Griffith | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Edwina | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Graysville | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Cranenest | 4.0 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076651. 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.


























