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.
Then and now
1910 to 1992The 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.


Compare 1910 against another survey:
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.
- 1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Fultonham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Fultonham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Fultonham quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Fultonham quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
3,252 words on this township1883 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 2013Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2017 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7895 |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15486 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10426 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10245 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 189 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Uromyces junci-effusi P.Syd. & Syd. | 1910 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Holwaya gigantea (Peck) E.J.Durand | 1891 | W. A. Kellerman | [Specific locality illegible.] |
![]() | Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff. | 1891 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Fissidens adianthoides Hedw. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | Fultonham |
![]() | Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle | 1895 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Uromyces junci Tul. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | Junction City |
![]() | Natrix kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856) | 1902 | Dilto, C. R. | Perry Co., Ohio |
![]() | Puccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw. | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman & J. McOwen Jr. | |
![]() | Endothia fluens (Sowerby) Shear & N.E.Stevens | 1912 | Nixon E. L. | Perry Co. |
![]() | Telmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1926 | Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | Honey Creek, Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Potersville: in edge of Co., Perry Co., Ohio |
![]() | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1928 | Trautman, 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 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterhill Stone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Chesterhill Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Jonathan Mine | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sego | $2,000 | Trees were blown down east of Somerset. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sego | $1,000 | Trees were blown down east of Somerset. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sego | $1,000 | Trees were blown down along roads. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Perry | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Wesley | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Chalfants | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Redfield | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Glass Rock | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Saltillo | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Clover Hill | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Somerset | 5.5 miles | 11 |
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 Sego | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22030634 | The 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.























