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Sciotodale, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Porter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45662. It lies in Stewart Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Minford quadrangle. 1,049 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Sciotodale within Scioto County

Population over time

2 figures

Sciotodale fell from 1,081 to 1,049 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,081
20201,049-32 (-3%)

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 Sciotodale, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Sciotodale, 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 1903 county history

7,364 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Porter Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Porter Township - 7,364 words.

Fires nearby

117 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Sciotodale between 1997 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5485
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1821
25 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8765
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesROSEMOUNT
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15223

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 818 shown

Museums hold 818 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sciotodale between 1884 and 1975: 746 Animalia, 41 Plantae, 26 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, Ahles, H.E. 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884H. MoresScioto River
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A.P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Cylindrocladium scoparium MorganCylindrocladium scoparium Morgan1893A.P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Campeloma Rafinesque, not of this specimenCampeloma Rafinesque, 18191885Ch. R. OrcuttScioto River
A photograph of the species Puccinia recondita, not of this specimenPuccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.1889Craig M.Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
Specimen of Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291896not recordedScioto River
A photograph of the species Ambystoma opacum, not of this specimenAmbystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Specimen of Peronospora polygoni Halst.Peronospora polygoni Halst.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sympetrum Newman, not of this specimenSympetrum Newman, 18331897J. HinePortsmouth
A photograph of the species Sympetrum obtrusum, not of this specimenSympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)1897J. HinePortsmouth

All 818 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sciotodale: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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
Cyclops Corp/ New Boston, OhioIronProducer
River Creek Clay BedClayProspect
Sciotoville ClayIron, Aluminum, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence1861
Blair QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frankfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms nearby

1 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Sciotodale in 1 storm report between 2009 and 2009: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSciotodale$60,000The National Weather Service confirmed straight-line wind damage in Wheelersburg. An estimated 600 trees were downed or uprooted along the path of approximately five miles. A horse barn roof was torn off with another barn's roof partially damaged at the intersection of Hammerstein and Lang Slocum Road. Baseball dugouts were damaged along with a total of about six barns partially destroyed.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Happy Hours Addition1.0 miles12
Highland Bend1.2 miles12
Sciotoville1.2 miles12
Camp Bennett1.3 miles12
Slocum Heights1.5 miles12
Crestview Park1.6 miles16
Slocum1.6 miles12
Rigrish Addition1.8 miles12

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 SciotodaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1826579The 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 1076853. 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.