Redtown, Ohio
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Trimble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45732. It stands on Greens Run. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle. It stands 2,444 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1903 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
66 since 1994The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Redtown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 80 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 | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LITTLE |
| 9 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 329 BRAVO |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | BIG BAILEY |
| 26 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | RV FIRE 295 |
| 12 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | MILL CREEK FIRE |
| 6 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | OLD 78 FIRE |
| 9 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7809 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 948 shownMuseums hold 948 specimens collected within 10 miles of Redtown between 1896 and 1975: 792 Animalia, 111 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, A.D. Selby 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Athens County |
![]() | Ambrosia bidentata Michx. | 1969 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta | 1902 | Morse, M. (Max) | Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio |
| Melasmia Lév., 1846 | 1902 | Kellerman, W.A. | Athens | |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1908 | A. D. Selby | Sharpsburg |
![]() | Catocala innubens Guenée, 1852 | 1910 | Shuey, J. A. (John A.) | Athens, Athens Co., OH |
| Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc. | 1912 | Dunlap O. E. | Athens | |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1916 | not recorded |
All 948 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2022The National Weather Service names Redtown in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2022 | Hail | Redtown | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Greens Run | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Truetown | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Olbers | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Trimble | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Modoc | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Millfield | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| East Millfield | 2.3 miles | 19 |
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 Redtown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7306312 | 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 1076722. 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.




























