Poe Valley, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45647. It stands on Bluelick Run. The Survey maps it on the Londonderry quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1906 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1906 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1906 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
16 since 2007The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Poe Valley (historical) between 2007 and 2015, burning about 103 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | LONDONDERRY |
| 30 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1081 |
| 21 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1329 |
| 20 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 21 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1025 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 947 shownMuseums hold 947 specimens collected within 10 miles of Poe Valley (historical) between 1922 and 1975: 866 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 34 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. Spreitzer, A.E. Miller 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Neurotoma fasciata | 1922 | A.E. Miller | |
![]() | Schizocerella pilicornis (Holmgren) | 1922 | A.E. Miller | |
![]() | Aceria ulmicola Nalepa, 1909 | 1923 | Miller, A. E. (August E.) | Richmond Dale, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A. |
![]() | Acroneuria abnormis (Newman, 1838) | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
![]() | Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
![]() | Acroneuria internata (Walker, 1852) | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
![]() | Acroneuria perplexa Frison, 1937 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
| Agnetina capitata (Pictet, 1841) | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | ||
| Neoperla stewarti Stark & Baumann, 1978 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | ||
![]() | Perlesta Banks, 1906 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | |
| Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862) | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy | ||
![]() | Perlesta lagoi Stark, 1989 | 1925 | Clarence H. Kennedy |
All 947 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Londonderry | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Vigo | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Lickskillet | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Mooresville | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Tucson | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Canada (historical) | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Schooley | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| West Junction | 5.4 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050026. 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.




















