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

Royersville, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Elizabeth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45638. It lies in Toad Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ironton quadrangle.

Royersville within Lawrence County

Then and now

1898 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Royersville, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Royersville, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

372 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Royersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,891 acres in total. None started naturally. 89 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	147
Arson/incendiarism	89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	69
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Recreation and ceremony	15
Other causes	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM 09/09
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	GREEN GRASS
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	SR 93
7 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	11 acres	Wayne National Forest	WIND FIRE
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BAILEY
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2007	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	PEDRO #2 FIRE
28 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Wayne National Forest	SAND HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 418 shown

Museums hold 418 specimens collected within 10 miles of Royersville between 1890 and 1972: 300 Animalia, 64 Fungi, 53 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Aecidium clematidis DC.	1896	F.L. Stevens
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
Meigeniella hinei Coquillett, 1902	1899	[Not Stated]	Hanging Rock
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1890	Schneck	Hanging Rock
Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.	1892	W. C. Werner
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1892	W. C. Werner
Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.	1892	Carver Wm.	Ironton
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.	1892	W. C. Werner
Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton
Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner
Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton.
Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton

All 418 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Royersville: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Pedro Mine & Mill	Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Brohard Pit	Clay	Producer
Maquette Cement Quarry	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pedro Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pedro Plant	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pinkston Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pinkston Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Superior Plant & Quarry Cement	Clay	Producer
Superior Shale Quarry-Bear Run	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

4 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Royersville in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
July 2009	Lightning	Royersville	3 hurt	Three people were struck by lightning along Elizabeth Township Route 323. Four people were riding all terrain vehicles, when a downpour had them seek shelter under a tree. One of the victims said, there was no thunder or lightning. We were just trying to stay dry and the lightning just hit all at once. One woman was knocked unconscious for about 20 minutes. The 2 females were transported by ambulance to Cabell Huntington Hospital, while the third person did not seek treatment. The woman that was knocked unconscious checked out of the hospital with no injuries. The other woman spent 3 days in the hospital undergoing tests. She was still having vision problems and pain in her hands and feet.
January 2022	Flood	Royersville	$1,000	All lanes of State Route 93 North were closed to Township Road 294 due to flooding.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Royersville	$1,000	Two trees were blown down across State Route 93 near Pedro.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Royersville	$250	One tree was blown down onto Route 93, blocking the road for a brief period of time.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Vesuvius (historical)	0.9 miles	17
Pedro	1.5 miles	13
Pine Grove	1.5 miles	17
Etna	1.6 miles	17
Ellisonville	1.7 miles	17
Lisman	1.8 miles	13
New Castle	2.0 miles	17
Lawrence Furnace	2.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122597235

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 1076778. 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.