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Reedsville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Olive Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45772. It stands on Rock Run. The Survey maps it on the Pond Creek quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Reedsville within Meigs County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Reedsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Reedsville, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 sheets

Matched 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.

Fires nearby

18 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Reedsville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 62 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7825
8 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources754
6 April 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBULL RUN
30 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8068
21 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4509
21 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4614
11 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 219 shown

Museums hold 219 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reedsville between 1906 and 1973: 210 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B A, C. H. Jones, Carroll H. D. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1940Carroll, G.Big Spruce Creek
Specimen of Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) HolubDiphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub1964Wistendahl, J.D.Athens. Sportsman Club Road, roadside ravine. Forked Run State Park.
A photograph of the species Helminthosporium turcicum, not of this specimenHelminthosporium turcicum Pass.1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Isariopsis griseola, not of this specimenIsariopsis griseola Sacc.1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Puccinia violae, not of this specimenPuccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.1906Sheldon John L.Ohio River R. R. Foster's Siding
A photograph of the species Uromyces appendiculatus, not of this specimenUromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Link1906Carroll H. D.Bull Run
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortland, Buffington Island
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortland, Buffington Island
A photograph of the species Ellipsaria lineolata, not of this specimenEllipsaria lineolata (Rafinesque, 1820)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortland, Buffington Island
A photograph of the species Elliptio crassidens, not of this specimenElliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortland, Buffington Island
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1910Ortmann, Arnold EPortland, Buffington Island
A photograph of the species Lampsilis cardium, not of this specimenLampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 18201910Ortmann, Arnold EPortland, Buffington Island

All 219 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Reedsville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D.V. Weber Sand and Grave PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Weber Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Meigs County

Storms nearby

11 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Reedsville in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2011FloodReedsville$75,000no account filed
March 2021FloodReedsville$8,000The Ohio River at the Belleville Lock and Dam rose above its 35 foot flood stage on the evening of March 2nd. The river at this location crested at 35.58 feet and returned to its banks on the evening of March 3rd. Ohio State Route 124 was flooded in several places, including north of Stiversville Road, at Rock Run, at Wells Run to Smith Ridge to Dewitts Run, at Forked Run, at Curtis Hollow Road, and between the town of Long Bottom and Shade River.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindReedsville$3,000Downed trees and power lines along Little Forest Run Road resulted in local power outages in the area of Reedsville.
February 2022FloodReedsville$3,000The Belleville Lock of the Ohio River observed the river rising out of its 35 foot flood stage on the morning of February 19th. The river crested at 36.53 feet just before sunrise on the 20th and returned to its banks that evening. While this portion of the Ohio River was in flood, Ohio State Route 124, which resides adjacent to the river up to the Meigs/Washington County line, flooded as well as smaller roads that feed into Route 124.
April 2018FloodReedsville$2,000Flooding along the Ohio River caused high water along State Route 124 between the Washington County line and Racine. ||The river gage at Belleville Lock showed the river rose above its 35 foot flood stage early afternoon on the 4th. The river rose into moderate flooding, cresting just over 38 feet around midnight on the 6th, and then returned to within its banks that evening.||At Racine, the river gage showed the river rose above its flood stage of 41 feet just before sunrise on the 5th, and crested around midnight on the 6th at about 43.5 feet. It then returned to within its banks that evening.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindReedsville$2,000Multiple trees fell down near Reedsville.
December 2007FloodReedsville$2,000no account filed
July 2025Flash FloodReedsville-Flooded roads were observed in Reedsville.
October 2018HailReedsville-no account filed
April 2016HailReedsville-no account filed
July 2003HailReedsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meigs County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Randolph Landing0.3 miles16
Rushville0.7 miles15
Eden2.5 miles14
Joppa3.5 miles14
Fayal (historical)3.6 miles15
Long Bottom3.8 miles15
Success4.6 miles14
Pinegrove5.1 miles14

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 ReedsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7306754The 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 1070909. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.