BlockReinersville, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Manchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43756. The Survey maps it on the Reinersville quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 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
10 surveys from 14 printed 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.
- 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Reinersville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Reinersville quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
4,028 words on this townshipHistory of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Manchester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The timber growth of the township gives the character of the soil, being black and white walnut, white and yellow poplar, hickory, sugar-tree, etc. In the western side of the township are Brannon's and Dye's Fork of Meig's Creek, and on the east, the head waters of Olive Green. The last few years have developed facts in regard to the mineral wealth of the township that were not ascertained when the detailed report of the geological survey of the county was published in 1878. Iron ore, both black-band ami hematite, is said to abound in great quantities in different parts of the township; while along the valley of Meig's Creek are to be found very extensive veins of bituminous coal averaging a little more than four feet in thickness.
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
In 1848 the village of Reinersville was laid out by and named in honor of Samuel Reiner, a native of Pennsylvania and a man of more than ordinary business capacity and enterprise. The original plat consisted of nineteen lots, but in 1855 the Jumper addition was annexed to it. The present population (1886) is about one hundred and fifty. It contains two general stores, two blacksmith shops, one saddle and harness shop, one shoe shop, one hotel, two churches (Methodist Protestant and Christian), one schoolhouse and one Masonic hall. There is also a resident physician, L. P. Culver, M. I)., who has been engaged in practice there over twenty years. The location of Reinersville is very favorable for mercantile pursuits.
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
There is no record as to the time when Seeleyville laid claim to the title of village, but as a place where traffic in merchandise and financial and political speculations were attended to it antedates Reinersville some twenty years. The first store in Seeleyville was kept by John Seeley. The village now has one general store (Wm. Crisman, proprietor), one blacksmith shop, one saw and planing-mill, two wagon shops, one undertaker and one lodge of I. (). O. F.
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Manchester Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Reinersville between 2009 and 2016, burning about 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4728 |
| 23 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 290 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 290 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reinersville between 1888 and 1974: 198 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.), Albaugh, Douglas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1962 | D. Stansbery | Muskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly |
 | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
.jpg) | Crystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 2008 | 1888 | Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.) | Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township |
 | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
 | Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio |
 | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
 | Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
 | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1904 | not recorded | Meigs Creek |
 | Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst. | 1910 | W. T. Mitchell & Son | Beverly |
 | Calla palustris L. | 1927 | G. Eifrig | Hayward |
 | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
 | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Olive Green Creek, within Center township, near Coal Run, Center township |
All 290 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Reinersville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otho (historical) | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Seeleyburg (historical) | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cabinville (historical) | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Centerville | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bristol | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Hackney | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Brill (historical) | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Unionville | 5.2 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070911. 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.