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Scottown, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45678. It stands on Little Indian Guyan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aid quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Scottown within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Scottown, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Scottown, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

104 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Scottown between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,569 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism25
Other causes1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15245
19 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestNORMAN
1 August 2013Natural3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1661
4 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1404
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 746 shown

Museums hold 746 specimens collected within 10 miles of Scottown between 1840 and 1974: 555 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 81 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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 Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.WinterMicrosphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1892W.A. KellermanSymmes Creek
Specimen of Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Eragrostis reptans, not of this specimenEragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees1880T Meehan
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedGuyandotte River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1903Beale J. M.Guyandotte
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Brooks Fred E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1904Brooks F. E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Haematoloechus longiplexus, not of this specimenHaematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 19021905Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David ZamparoHuntington
A photograph of the species Cladosporium carpophilum, not of this specimenCladosporium carpophilum Thüm.1906C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze1909Summers, T. B.Huntington
Marssonina populi (Lib.) Magnus1909Sheldon John L.Huntington

All 746 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Scottown in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 2000FloodScottown1 killedAn eleven year old boy drowned in Indian Guyan Creek, swollen by the rains of the preceding evening. Rains of 2 to 3 inches were common in the vicinity, with Lesage measuring 3.1 inches, Willow Wood at 2.35 inches and Hogsett, West Virginia with 2.48 inches. The location was near the covered bridge at the junction of Routes 217 and 67. According to the Windsor Township Fire Chief, the boy waded through shallow water, only to step off the bank into much deeper water. After the water levels had receded, his body was found a few days later, about a mile downstream.
August 2003Flash FloodScottown$10,000Little Indian Guyan Creek flooded and damaged Route 37.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindScottown$3,000Trees were blown down, along with power lines, in Scottown at the intersection of Route 775 and 217.
April 2025HailScottown-no account filed
March 2007HailScottown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Dobbston2.0 miles15
Platform2.1 miles16
Cebee2.3 miles15
Ida (historical)2.3 miles15
Polkadotte2.5 miles16
Suiter3.4 miles15
Bartramville4.0 miles20
Willow Wood4.3 miles15

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 ScottownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7438144The 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 1076856. 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.