Prattsville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45651. It stands on The Pinnacle. The Survey maps it on the McArthur quadrangle. It stands 2,582 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 75 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
13 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 Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mcarthur quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mcarthur quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
21 since 2007The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Prattsville between 2007 and 2020, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1427 |
| 28 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4647 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11011 |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15691 |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11525 |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4066 |
| 9 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,114 shownMuseums hold 1,114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Prattsville between 1878 and 1975: 1,033 Animalia, 58 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr | 1936 | C. C. Green | Waterloo State Forest |
![]() | Houstonia caerulea L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej. | 1878 | None | Hamden |
![]() | Plantago lanceolata L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Acordulecera dorsalis | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Acordulecera mellina | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
| Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
![]() | Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States |
| Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Argyra minuta Loew, 1861 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States |
All 1,114 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
6 since 1996The National Weather Service names Prattsville in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Flash Flood | Prattsville | $100,000 | Streams flooded and blocked roads, including Route 50, in the central and southern portion of the county. Ohio state officials reported 2 homes with minor damage, plus damage to roads, in Richland Township. |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Prattsville | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prattsville | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down in the Union Ridge vicinity near County Route 6. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prattsville | $2,000 | Trees were knocked across County Route 29. |
| January 2022 | Flood | Prattsville | $1,000 | Flooding occurred on State Route 278 South which led all lanes to be closed near the intersection with US Route 50 in the community of Prattsville. |
| March 2017 | Flash Flood | Prattsville | $1,000 | State Route 278 was closed in both directions due to flash flooding from Raccoon Creek and some of its smaller tributaries. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ural (historical) | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Red Diamond | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Vinton | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Zaleski | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Pincher (historical) | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| McArthur | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Elk Fork | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Oreton | 5.3 miles | 13 |
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 Prattsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q104855710 | 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 1061571. 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.





















