Roads, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45692. The Survey maps it on the Wellston quadrangle.
Then and now
1913 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 67 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
14 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.
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
30 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Roads between 2009 and 2019, burning about 52 acres in total. None 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 burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11885 |
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 906 shownMuseums hold 906 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roads between 1878 and 1975: 552 Animalia, 270 Plantae, 79 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Metzgeria furcata (L.) Corda | 1925 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Calodon | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Little Salt Creek |
![]() | Calvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Little Salt Creek |
![]() | Houstonia caerulea L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej. | 1878 | None | Hamden |
![]() | Plantago lanceolata L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758 | 1899 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Rorippa Scop. | 1905 | F. Bartley | 3 mi south of Jackson |
![]() | Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm. | 1915 | Hedgcock G. G. | Jackson |
![]() | Trametes robiniophila Murrill | 1916 | MCCLEDROTLE G. A.? | Coalton |
![]() | Eriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889) | 1923 | Miller, A. E. (August E.) | Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A. |
All 906 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2020The National Weather Service names Roads in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roads | $500 | A tree was downed near the intersection of Fairgreens Road and Keenan Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ironton Junction | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Latrobe (historical) | 1.5 miles | 14 | |
| Tom Corwin | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Maple Grove (historical) | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Comet | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Wellston | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Goldsboro | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Glen Roy | 3.1 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061615. 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.

























