BlockRokeby Lock, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43756. It stands on Island Run. The Survey maps it on the Rokeby Lock quadrangle.
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.
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 Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Bloom township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Early Events
1823 was noted for the invasion of sqirrels traveling east. Black and gray, about equally divided, they came in countless numbers. They crossed the river and immediately attacked the fields of corn wherever found. Many farmers who were not able to watch their corn crop lost all their crop; and others with all the attention they could give saved only a small part of it.
In the county-history sources
8,022 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 Bloom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In April of 1822 Joseph Devol and family came from Washington County, Ohio, and settled on section sixteen, Bristol Township. The family consisted of seven children : Nancy, Richmond, Philip, Deborah C., Rhoda and Loren. The latter is the only one of the family now residing in the county. He ay as born in Washington County, Ohio, August 8, 1820. His father was a native of Rhode Island and was born in 1773. Ilis grandfather, Captain Jonathan Devol, was one of the Marietta colonists, and aided in the construction of the Campus Martius. Loren Devol, one of the prominent and successful farmers of Bloom, was a resident of Bristol until about 1875. He was a member of Company C, 122d Regiment O. V. I., and served three years.
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.
Fires near this place
11 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rokeby Lock between 2012 and 2019, burning about 27 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2013 | 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 near this place
12 of 284 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 284 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rokeby Lock between 1887 and 1974: 255 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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 | |
| Leskea obscura Hedw. | 1896 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
 | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
 | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
 | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | MCCONNELSVILLE |
 | Ambystoma Tschudi, 1838 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio |
| Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915) | 1927 | F. N. | McConnelsville | |
 | Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901) | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
| Bezzia Kieffer, 1899 | 1927 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
All 284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagleport | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Durant | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Triadelphia | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Joetown | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Halls Valley (historical) | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Airington (historical) | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Malta | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| McConnelsville | 6.4 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076765. 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.