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

Samantha, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Penn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45135. It stands on Cemetery Hill. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle.

Samantha within Highland County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Samantha, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Samantha, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Samantha between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
8 February 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 November 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 915 shown

Museums hold 915 specimens collected within 10 miles of Samantha between 1880 and 1973: 705 Animalia, 155 Fungi, 42 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, Adams, J. (Joe) & Hutchins, E. (Edward), Breiding, G. (George) 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
Entyloma compositarum Farl.	1894	F. L. Stevens	Highland Falls.
Aecidium asterum Schwein.	1895	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Highland County
Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1880	not recorded	Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America
Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)	1881	S.M. Taggert	Lees Creek, Leesburg, North America
Dizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)	1921	Bucher & E. Ulrich	.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899	1922	Cooke, William Bridge	Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Cololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans	1924	M. A. Taylor
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi	1924	M. A. Taylor

All 915 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 Samantha: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Haven Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Haven Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Highland County

Storms nearby

9 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Samantha in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Samantha	$100,000	Damage associated with the tornado began east of U.S. 62 and consisted of uprooted trees and large snapped limbs. The first structural damage was observed north of Selph Road near Lewis Lane, where a large portion of roof covering was removed from an outbuilding. Additional tree damage was observed along Lewis Lane. Due to no road availability, there was a length of unreachable damage likely stretching around 1 mile between Lewis Lane and Kincaid Road to the east. A structure on the east side of Kincaid Road sustained side wall damage associated with a garage door failure. The tornado continued east, crossing State Route 138 and causing tree damage and additional minor structural damage. The most intense damage occurred along Morrow Road where numerous trees were snapped and uprooted and several outbuildings received considerable damage. The tornado weakened quickly with the final observed damage near Fall Creek.
March 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Samantha	$30,000	Damage was first observed at a farm residence on the north side of Larkin Road, where one tree was downed and a barn was destroyed. Northeast of there, some minor tree damage was seen on State Route 72 and along tree lines in adjacent fields.\|\|Structural damage occurred at a property on US Route 62 near the intersection with Old US 62, with several outbuildings destroyed or heavily damaged. The house at this location had minor damage, mainly to roofing materials, with shingles removed on multiple sides. One large evergreen tree was uprooted and other trees were snapped. At another property slightly northeast on US Route 62, a garage was destroyed and numerous trees behind the garage were snapped.\|\|On Leaverton Road, a barn was partially collapsed. Two evergreen trees were also snapped and other tree damage was observed both at this location and across the field to the east. Slightly south of this location, also on Leaverton Road, several trees were downed along a low spot on the road and a fence was blown flat. Minor tree damage was also observed where the tornado crossed Smith Road and a garage door was blown in at a residence on State Route 771 with some trees snapped in the vicinity. A few trees were also damaged where the tornado crossed Monroe Road.\|\|Tree damage was observed to be significant in several locations along Milner Road. A house on Milner Road sustained siding damage to both the east and west sides of the structure and tree damage was extensive at this property. An adjacent modular home had its roof removed and other outbuildings were damaged, with debris thrown northeast across an adjacent field. \|\|A hay barn on Bridges Road had most of its top half removed with the top also removed from another adjacent outbuilding. A home on Big Oak Road had part of its roof removed with debris observed in an adjacent field, likely a result of damage further to the west.\|\|The last observed damage from this tornado occurred along Cope Road, where an outbuilding was mostly destroyed and a garage had part of its roof removed. Debris was thrown across Cope Road into a field to the east and southeast.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Samantha	$15,000	A carport was blown fifty feet, a shed was destroyed, and a fence was damaged due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Samantha	$10,000	Numerous trees were scattered in various directions. Some pine trees were topped off at 15 feet. A home also experienced some roof damage.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Samantha	$10,000	Structural damage to and the roof pulled off of one house
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Samantha	$5,000	Trees knocked down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Samantha	$1,000	Several large tree limbs were knocked down.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Samantha	$500	A large limb was knocked down.
June 2017	Flash Flood	Samantha	-	Water was reported over State Route 72.

Every storm recorded in Highland 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
Fallsville (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Careytown	2.7 miles	11
Highland Station	3.6 miles	12
Gist Settlement	3.7 miles	11
Bridges	4.0 miles	12
Highland	4.2 miles	12
Leesburg	4.7 miles	12
Lynwood Terrace	4.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065284. 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.