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

Rome, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45669. It stands on Paddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barboursville quadrangle.

Rome within Lawrence County

Then and now

1892 to 1982

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 Rome, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Rome, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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.

Fires nearby

144 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Rome between 1992 and 2020, burning about 302 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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 burning51
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1822
19 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRUSSELL CREEK
24 July 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryEAST PEA RIDGE
16 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8546
17 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry5600 BLOCK RT. 2
9 May 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryARACOM ROAD
6 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryBIG 7 MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 761 shown

Museums hold 761 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rome between 1840 and 1974: 543 Animalia, 117 Plantae, 78 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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 Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.WinterMicrosphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1892W.A. KellermanSymmes Creek
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Eragrostis reptans, not of this specimenEragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees1880T Meehan
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedGuyandotte River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1903Beale J. M.Guyandotte
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Brooks Fred E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1904Brooks F. E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Haematoloechus longiplexus, not of this specimenHaematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 19021905Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David ZamparoHuntington
A photograph of the species Cladosporium carpophilum, not of this specimenCladosporium carpophilum Thüm.1906C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze1909Summers, T. B.Huntington
A photograph of the species Coprinus Pers., not of this specimenCoprinus Pers., 17971909SambertBarboursville
Marssonina populi (Lib.) Magnus1909Sheldon John L.Huntington

All 761 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 Rome: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

7 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Rome in 7 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindRome$30,000Part of the Fairland West Elementary School roof was blown off in the Rome Township.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRome$8,000A tree was blown down and fell partially onto a residential home.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRome$1,000One tree was blown down along Route 12 near the town of Rome.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRome$500A tree blew down into power lines along Little Paddy Road outside of Proctorville.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRome$250One tree blew down along County Road 411 in the community of Rome.
February 2024HailRome-no account filed
March 2023HailRome-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Mott0.2 miles19
Fairland0.2 miles19
Home Park0.2 miles19
Plantation Estates0.4 miles19
Miller Estates0.4 miles19
Riverview Estates0.5 miles19
Cranford0.6 miles19
Northwood0.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070918. 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.