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

Sciotoville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Portsmouth City. It lies in ZIP code area 45662. It lies in Russ Hollow. The Survey maps it on the New Boston quadrangle.

Sciotoville within Scioto County

Then and now

1911 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sciotoville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Sciotoville, surveyed 1911

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

114 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Sciotoville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 865 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesPORTSMOUTH
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 871 shown

Museums hold 871 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sciotoville between 1884 and 1975: 798 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 29 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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 Harpographium fasciculatum, not of this specimenHarpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.1887A.P. MorganPreston
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
unnamed1897MorganPreston
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

All 871 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 Sciotoville: 3 producers, 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 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
Sciotoville ClayIron, Aluminum, Silica, TitaniumOccurrence1861
River Creek Clay BedClayProspect
South Shore Clay BedClayProspect
Blair QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cunningham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Frankfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Scioto County

Storms nearby

10 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Sciotoville in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
August 2000Tornado (F1)Sciotoville$300,000A tornado was embedded in an area of straight line winds near Wheelersburg. Trees and power lines were knocked down on vehicles, damage occurred to a few homes, and two rail cars were knocked off their tracks.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSciotoville$20,000Thunderstorm winds tore metal sheeting off the front of a house. Several trees were downed, some across roads including State Highway 335.
July 2007Flash FloodSciotoville$6,000Automobiles were flooded near the intersection of US Route 52 and State Route 335.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSciotoville$4,000Two trees were downed into power lines near the intersection of Bonser Run Road and Elliot Hill Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSciotoville$1,000Two trees were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSciotoville$1,000A tree was downed across Elliot Hill Road.
September 2018Flash FloodSciotoville$1,000A rock and mudslide closed portions of State Route 335 near mile marker 2.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSciotoville$500Numerous large tree limbs were downed.
September 2018FloodSciotoville-High water was reported on several roads on the east side of Portsmouth.
May 2011HailSciotoville-no account filed

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
East Portsmouth (historical)1.1 miles12
Sciotodale1.2 miles12
Happy Hours Addition1.4 miles12
Highland Bend1.5 miles12
Camp Bennett1.9 miles12
Slocum Heights2.4 miles12
Rigrish Addition2.4 miles12
North Moreland2.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065293. 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.