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Ringgold, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43758. The Survey maps it on the Ringgold quadrangle. It stands 3,025 feet above sea level.

Ringgold within Morgan County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ringgold, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Ringgold, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1880 county history

237 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 237 words.

Fires nearby

16 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Ringgold between 2009 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 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 burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15255
5 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestALDER
3 May 2014Naturalunder an acreWayne National ForestEAST
2 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11385
4 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWayne National ForestWATER WORKS
20 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4729
29 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources703
21 March 2014Debris and open burning4.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 326 shown

Museums hold 326 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ringgold between 1887 and 1973: 287 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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 Cercis canadensis L.Cercis canadensis L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
Specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos L.Gleditsia triacanthos L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Sporobolus vaginiflorus, not of this specimenSporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood1898Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1903not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus Schwein.1906Collector unspecifiedMcConnellsville
A photograph of the species Merulius corium, not of this specimenMerulius corium (Pers.) Fr.1908Coker W. C.Chapel Hill
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1911B.R. BalesRinggold
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.MCCONNELSVILLE

All 326 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Ringgold in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindRinggold$2,000Large tree branches and power lines were blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRinggold$2,000Trees fell across Route 78 and several county and township roads.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRinggold$500A downed tree was observed along County Route 15 and East Branch Road near Corning.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRinggold-Large branches fell down on roads.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Shilling (historical)2.0 miles13
Rosseau2.1 miles13
Morganville3.2 miles13
Vicksville3.7 miles14
Chaneyville (historical)4.3 miles13
Elliott Crossroads4.5 miles13
Mountville5.0 miles13
Westland5.1 miles13

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 RinggoldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7334872The 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 1076743. 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.