BlockRinggold, 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 922 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The 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.
On record in Ringgold
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Rock Hollow Schoollisted 1983
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
9,449 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 Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Of the early settlers of this township Belmont County furnished a considerable number. Upon upper Wolf and Sunday Creeks the first settlers are said to have been Irish, or largely so. Some of the older townships of the county also made valuable contributions to its population.
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
Their cabin was situated on the Bottom. One day while Mr. Quigley was at work on the opposite side of the creek, where the house north of Wolf Creek Church now stands, Mrs. Quigley came with her knitting to where her husband was at work. While they were sitting on a log they were somewhat startled at seeing a bear approaching. Quigley called the dog from the house and put him on the trail, when both disappeared in a small ravine. It was a peculiarity of the dog that he never barked ; but soon a noise was heard as if there was a contest for the right of way. The sound was followed until they came to Hemlock Run, where the bear was discovered making efforts to climb a tree, but the dog would pull him back, but was careful to avoid his embrace ; but finally he succeeded in making his way up a large walnut. Quigley then started for William Oliver's, a distance of five miles, for a gun, while Mrs. Quigley and the dog remained to watch and keep the bear up the tree. On his return with Uncle Oliver and the trusty rifle, bruin came unceremoniously to the ground, and as a prize of value was borne home on a pole suspended between them.
Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.
P. Rusk, Henry Hone, "William Ward, James Grubb, Isaac Harris, Aaron Wood, Samuel Short, John Tanner and Robert Hainsworth were among those who settled early. The history of some of these pioneers is to be found in the chapters devoted to other townships.
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 Union Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
16 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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 burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15255 |
| 5 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | ALDER |
| 3 May 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | EAST |
| 2 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11385 |
| 4 April 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | WATER WORKS |
| 20 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4729 |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 703 |
| 21 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 326 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cercis canadensis L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
 | Gleditsia triacanthos L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
 | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
 | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
 | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
 | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
 | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
 | Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr. | 1908 | Coker W. C. | Chapel Hill |
 | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1911 | B.R. Bales | Ringgold |
 | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | MCCONNELSVILLE |
All 326 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | $2,000 | Large tree branches and power lines were blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | $2,000 | Trees fell across Route 78 and several county and township roads. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | $500 | A downed tree was observed along County Route 15 and East Branch Road near Corning. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ringgold | - | Large branches fell down on roads. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shilling (historical) | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Rosseau | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Morganville | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Vicksville | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Chaneyville (historical) | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Elliott Crossroads | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Mountville | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Westland | 5.1 miles | 13 |
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 Ringgold | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7334872 | The 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.