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

Scioto Furnace, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45677. It stands on Falls Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Scioto Furnace within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Scioto Furnace, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Scioto Furnace, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

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.

In the county-history sources

4,336 words on this township

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Bloom Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Lime Coal Works at Eifort employ about 100 men; the brick plant at South Webster near 200 men and the Clay mines on Frederick 75 men; the Buckeye brick yard at Scioto Furnace 75 men and Bloom Furnace 100 men.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

Scioto Furnace was erected in 1828 by General William Kendall. It went into blast that year and was run by him for twelve months. He sold it to Salter and Dempsey, and they sold it to Harkness & Voorhees of Cincinnati. The last named firm kept it in blast till 1846. In that year Voorhees sold his interest to J. M. G. Smith. Harkness & Smith ran it till 1852 when Smith sold to J. W. Glidden and J. V. Robinson. The firm was called Robinson, Glidden & Company. This firm ran it until 1862 when the name was changed to Robinson & Company. The next change was to L. C. Robinson & Company, at the death of J. V. Robinson. Later Robinson sold a part of his share to Andrew Crawford and George S. Williams. This Company operated it until 1880 when Robinson failed and his interests went to Crawford. Williams and Wells A. Hutchins. In 1883, Crawford and Charles Leonard came into possession of the furnace and continued to operate it till 1892, when it made its last blast. The furnace lay idle from 1884 to 1886. It was dismantled in 1896 and A. T. Holcomb is owner of the site.

Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Bloom Township.

Fires near this place

55 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Scioto Furnace between 1998 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15223
26 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15785
12 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	132 TRUCK
3 June 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	SPUR A FIRE
17 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM 04/11/10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 148 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 148 specimens collected within 10 miles of Scioto Furnace between 1898 and 1975: 87 Fungi, 54 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aschinger, H. (Henry), Bryant, J., Bryant, J.C. 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
Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
Polyporus semipileatus Peck	1928	Walter Phillips	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1928	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow
Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
Alternaria Nees	1919	Ricker A. J.	Wheelersburg

All 148 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Scioto Furnace: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium, Clay. 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
Bonclay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Sciotoville Clay	Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium	Occurrence	1861
South Webster Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
South Webster Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scioto 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
Edmunds Switch	0.7 miles	12
Frederick	1.1 miles	12
Gephart	1.8 miles	12
South Webster	2.3 miles	10
Ashley Corner	2.3 miles	12
Pinkerman	2.8 miles	12
Harrison Mills	3.2 miles	12
Egypt	3.7 miles	12

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.

Wikipedia article on Scioto Furnace	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7433996	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 1076852. 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.