Seneca Lake Estates, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43780. The Survey maps it on the Senecaville quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 85 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
13 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.
- 1909 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:24000
In the 1911 county history
3,384 words on this townshipThe county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Richland Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Richland Township - 3,384 words.
Fires nearby
26 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Seneca Lake Estates between 2009 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16076 |
| 5 June 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 May 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1301 |
| 5 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16079 |
| 4 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16082 |
| 28 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 102 shownMuseums hold 102 specimens collected within 10 miles of Seneca Lake Estates between 1887 and 1975: 72 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Blephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth. | 1887 | Koenig, A. | near Temperanceville |
![]() | Dothiorella Sacc., 1880 | 1910 | Dawson W. | Byesville |
| Apidae | 1916 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Cuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Goniodes Nitzsch, 1818 | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Haematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1916 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Melissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825) | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1925 | CL & LC Hubbs | Trib to Salt Fork of Wills Creek, just above Middlebourne; Muskingum system |
All 102 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echo Point | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| East Shore Cottage Area | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Chestnut Grove Cottage Area | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Hickory Grove Cottage Area | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| West Shore Cottage Area | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Duch Addition | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| New Gottingen | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Greenwood | 3.9 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122540048 | 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 1960601. 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.























