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

Sego, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43760. It stands on Turkey Run. The Survey maps it on the Fultonham quadrangle.

Sego within Perry County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sego, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Sego, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 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

3,252 words on this township

1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

From the south, flowing directly north, is Turkey Run, which joins Jonathan's Creek near the center of the township, and is the second largest stream in the township. About one and three-fourth miles from the southeast corner of the township enters the Somerset and Maysville pike, from Zanesville, Ohio, continuing a little south of a direct western course to the central township meridan, and thence in a southwestern direction, it passes out about one half mile from the southwestern corner. This pike affords a fine out-let during all kinds of weather, and upon which a hack line is driven daily, from Somerset to Zanesville, carrying a daily mail to Sego. This pike was built in 1839, since which time it has been in constant use. ;

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

SEco. - It is situated on the Zanesville, Somerset and Maysville Pike, near the central meridian of the township. In 1846, William Curry built a blacksmith shop on a lot he bought from Wiiliam Dusenbery, it being part of one acre that was cut off from Dusenbery's farm by the above-named pike. Soon after this a store was established, and in 1849 Benjamin Williams built a woolen mill, and carded. spun and wove woolen goods there. The mill was run by steam, and stood only four years, when it was destroyed by fire and was never re-built. la 1848, when General Ritchey was in Congress, he had a post oflice established there, calling it Sego, a: name given it by William Curry, for a small town in Africa. Jacob Miller was the first postinaster. "There is now a small grocery, a general merchandise store, a post office that receives daily mail, except Sunday, via hack line from Zanesville to Somerset, and some three or four houses in Sego.

Passage source: 1883 History Perry County, Ohio, published 1883.

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 Madison Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

19 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Sego between 2013 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning17
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2017Smoking1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7895
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15486
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10426
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10245

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 189 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 189 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sego between 1891 and 1975: 163 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bergstrom, J., Buchanan, J., Buker, W.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 Uromyces junci-effusi P.Syd. & Syd.Uromyces junci-effusi P.Syd. & Syd.1910W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Holwaya gigantea, not of this specimenHolwaya gigantea (Peck) E.J.Durand1891W. A. Kellerman[Specific locality illegible.]
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. WernerFultonham
A photograph of the species Puccinia schedonnardi, not of this specimenPuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Uromyces junci, not of this specimenUromyces junci Tul.1901W. A. KellermanJunction City
A photograph of the species Natrix kirtlandii, not of this specimenNatrix kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856)1902Dilto, C. R.Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Puccinia muhlenbergiae, not of this specimenPuccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw.1902W. A. Kellerman & J. McOwen Jr.
A photograph of the species Endothia fluens, not of this specimenEndothia fluens (Sowerby) Shear & N.E.Stevens1912Nixon E. L.Perry Co.
A photograph of the species Telmatodytes palustris, not of this specimenTelmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)1926Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Honey Creek, Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Potersville: in edge of Co., Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA

All 189 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sego: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Chesterhill Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Chesterhill Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jonathan MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sego in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 3 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSego$2,000Trees were blown down east of Somerset.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSego$1,000Trees were blown down east of Somerset.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSego$1,000Trees were blown down along roads.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Mount Perry2.3 miles12
Wesley3.2 miles12
Chalfants4.4 miles11
Redfield4.6 miles12
Glass Rock4.8 miles12
Saltillo4.8 miles12
Clover Hill5.4 miles12
Somerset5.5 miles11

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 SegoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22030634The 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 1065298. 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.