Plantsville, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43728. The Survey maps it on the Amesville quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 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
14 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.
- 1904 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Amesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Amesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Amesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Amesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Amesville quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Amesville quadrangle1:24000
In the 1880 county history
64 words on this townshipThe county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Marion Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Marion Township - 64 words.
Fires nearby
4 since 2015The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Plantsville between 2015 and 2019, burning about 15 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 | 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 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 633 |
| 15 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11486 |
| 28 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15148 |
| 30 October 2016 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5929 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 42 shownMuseums hold 42 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plantsville between 1927 and 1970: 24 Animalia, 18 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolin, H. (Harold), Dennis, D. M., Whitesell, J. & Tilley, S. G., M. Johnson; L. Mingrope; W. Gambill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Apocynum cannabinum L. | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area |
![]() | Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr.; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area. |
![]() | Cercis canadensis L. | 1963 | Michael E. Johnson; Wm. G. Gambill Jr. | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area. |
![]() | Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | MB Trautman & RB Foster | W Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | West Branch Wolf Creek, within Penn township, near Chesterhill, Penn township |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Wolf Creek tributary, within Wesley township, near Stockport, Wesley township |
![]() | Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 1854 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Wolf Creek tributary, within Wesley township, near Stockport, Wesley township |
![]() | Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818) | 1932 | Wolfram, G. (George) | Roxbury, Morgan Co., Ohio |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1960 | Dennis, D. M., Whitesell, J. & Tilley, S. G. | Marion Twp., Morgan Co., Ohio |
![]() | Circaea lutetiana L. | 1963 | M. Johnson; L. Mingrope; W. Gambill | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area. |
| Fagopyrum esculentum Moench | 1963 | W. Gambill; L. Mingrove; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area. | |
| Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers. | 1963 | W. Gambill; L. Mingrone; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area. |
All 42 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterhill | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Joy | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Todds | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Wrightstown | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Elliott Crossroads | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Westland | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Mountville | 7.4 miles | 13 | |
| Chadwick (historical) | 7.8 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076652. 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.























