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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Reno, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Marietta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45750. It stands on Little Muskingum River. The Survey maps it on the Valley Mills quadrangle.

Reno within Washington County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Reno, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Reno, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

In the 1902 county history

15,123 words on this township

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Marietta Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Marietta Township - 15,123 words.

Fires nearby

32 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Reno between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 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 burning16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
31 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPOLECAT HOLLOW
12 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryBURNT HILL RD.
10 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestSEVEN
8 April 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryHOGLAND ROAD
29 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryDRY RUN RD.
21 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryDRY RUN RD.
2 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryDRY RUN RD.
17 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,138 shown

Museums hold 1,138 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reno between 1853 and 1975: 1,049 Animalia, 54 Fungi, 33 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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 Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.1923W.G. StonerMarietta
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1932C. MayMarietta
Specimen of Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.1932L.W.R.J.Nursery, Marietta
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1853E. AndrewsMarietta, Ohio
A photograph of the species Actinonaias carinata, not of this specimenActinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1879W. HoldenOhio River, Near Marietta
A photograph of the species Necturus maculosus, not of this specimenNecturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)1886Georg BaurMarietta
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Shufeldt, R.Marietta
A photograph of the species Progne subis, not of this specimenProgne subis (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Shufeldt, R.Marietta
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1896A. D. SelbyRainbow.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1896F.L. StevensMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias kleiniana, not of this specimenCyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1897Sterki, VictorMarietta

All 1,138 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 Reno: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Duckworth QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Union Carbide/ Marietta, OhioIron, ManganeseProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms nearby

16 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Reno in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindReno$200,000Fallen trees damaged homes. Roof shingles were damaged by the wind. An outbuilding was flattened. Hundreds of trees were knocked down.
August 2003Flash FloodReno$20,000Mill Run and Coal Run flooded. A few evacuations occurred along Coal Run.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindReno$20,000Bleachers and a press box at a car race track were damaged. Across Route 7, a conveyor at a car crusher business was damaged.
June 2011HailReno$20,000no account filed
March 2012HailReno$6,000At least 2 vehicles were damaged.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindReno$3,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindReno$3,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindReno$2,000Multiple trees were uprooted in Reno.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindReno$2,000Several trees were uprooted around Reno.
April 1996LightningReno$2,000no account filed
June 2018Flash FloodReno$1,000State Route 7 was flooded near Newport. Long Run Road was closed near Sandhill due to flooding on Long Run. Near Morningside, County House Lane was flooded, and so was Cornerstone Drive near Cornerville.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindReno-Trees came down along Route 7.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindReno-Large branches fell across Route 7.
April 2026HailReno-no account filed
April 2020HailReno-no account filed
June 2008HailReno-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Sandhill0.6 miles17
Cornerville2.0 miles19
Yankeeburg2.8 miles19
Lower Newport3.0 miles17
Morningside3.3 miles17
Dell3.4 miles19
East Norwood3.5 miles17
Norwood3.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076727. 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.