Schley, Ohio
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45773. It stands on Pine Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1904 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
In the 1902 county history
14,305 words on this townshipThe county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Lawrence Township covers general physical features and geological formation, first settlement, old families, eccentric characters, german emigration, scotch emigration.
Read the chapter on Lawrence Township - 14,305 words.
Fires nearby
29 since 1992The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Schley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 15 MILE FIRE |
| 22 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | NEFF RIDGE |
| 8 May 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | KINDERHOOK |
| 5 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | 15 MILE |
| 3 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | MT. PISGAH |
| 29 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BROAD RUN ROAD |
| 2 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | PLEASANTS CO. HUMANE SOCIETY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 265 shownMuseums hold 265 specimens collected within 10 miles of Schley between 1905 and 1975: 218 Animalia, 26 Fungi, 20 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allison W Cusick; Marilyn Ortt, B. F. Story, BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B A 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1941 | Meddles, O.; Steele, M. | Millwood Twp. From rich woods (lilly), along Putney Ridge between Quaker City and Salesville. |
| Alternaria solani Sorauer | 1905 | Post A. Lee | Long Reach | |
![]() | Cercospora canescens Ellis & G.Martin | 1905 | Johnson T. C. | Long Reach |
![]() | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1905 | Post A. L. | Long Reach |
![]() | Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni | 1905 | Post, A. L. | Long Reach |
![]() | Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter | 1905 | Johnson T. C. | Long Reach |
![]() | Puccinia dayi Clinton | 1909 | Bonner C. M. | Pleasants Co. |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry. |
| Endasys subclavatus (Say, 1835) | 1928 | W.V. Balduf | ||
![]() | Scambus pterophori (Ashmead, 1890) | 1928 | W.V. Balduf | |
![]() | Vulgichneumon brevicinctor (Say, 1825) | 1928 | W.V. Balduf |
All 265 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
1 since 2021The National Weather Service names Schley in 1 storm report between 2021 and 2021: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Schley | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down on Bear Run Road, County Road 12, and County Road 14. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076849. 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.




























