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.
Then and now
1911 to 1981The 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 sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
114 since 1997The 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 burning | 57 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5485 |
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1821 |
| 24 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | PORTSMOUTH |
| 2 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | ROSEMOUNT |
| 8 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15223 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 871 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1884 | H. Mores | Scioto River |
![]() | Bovistella Morgan | 1885 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan | 1893 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819 | 1885 | Ch. R. Orcutt | Scioto River |
![]() | Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc. | 1887 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm. | 1889 | Craig M. | Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River |
![]() | Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829 | 1896 | not recorded | Scioto River |
| unnamed | 1897 | Morgan | Preston | |
![]() | Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio |
![]() | Peronospora polygoni Halst. | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Henninger, 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 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclops Corp/ New Boston, Ohio | Iron | Producer | ||
| Sciotoville Clay | Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium | Occurrence | 1861 | |
| River Creek Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect | ||
| South Shore Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Blair Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cunningham Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Frankfort Mtls. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
10 since 1995The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Sciotoville | $300,000 | A 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sciotoville | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds tore metal sheeting off the front of a house. Several trees were downed, some across roads including State Highway 335. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Sciotoville | $6,000 | Automobiles were flooded near the intersection of US Route 52 and State Route 335. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sciotoville | $4,000 | Two trees were downed into power lines near the intersection of Bonser Run Road and Elliot Hill Road. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sciotoville | $1,000 | Two trees were downed. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sciotoville | $1,000 | A tree was downed across Elliot Hill Road. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Sciotoville | $1,000 | A rock and mudslide closed portions of State Route 335 near mile marker 2. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sciotoville | $500 | Numerous large tree limbs were downed. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Sciotoville | - | High water was reported on several roads on the east side of Portsmouth. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sciotoville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Portsmouth (historical) | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Sciotodale | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Happy Hours Addition | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Highland Bend | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Camp Bennett | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Slocum Heights | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Rigrish Addition | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| North Moreland | 2.4 miles | 12 |
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.






















