Relief, Ohio

The 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.

1909 1994

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.

• 1909 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000

History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Waterford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Relief between 2012 and 2020, burning about 46 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hayward
• Beckett
• Ludlow
• Beverly
• Coal Run
• Equity

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 553 specimens collected within 10 miles of Relief between 1887 and 1974: 456 Animalia, 84 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (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
	Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820	1962	D. Stansbery	Waterford Township, Muskingum River, Beverly
	Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)	1962	D. Stansbery	Muskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly
	Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.	1887	Morgan
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
	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
	Merulius incarnatus Schwein.	1906	Collector unspecified	McConnellsville
	Calla palustris L.	1927	G. Eifrig	Hayward

All 553 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Relief: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, REE, Iron, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Relief in 7 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 6 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Washington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062966. 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.