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

Shay, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It stands on Shay Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rinard Mills quadrangle.

Shay within Washington County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shay, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Shay, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Independence township, in the words of 1902.

1902, Independence Township

Thomas Simms And His Captivity

About 1810 a man arrived, of adventurous and eventful history. When Thomas Simms was a boy of some eight years of age, living with his kindred near Wheeling, Virginia, the Indians attacked and massacred his grandfather, and several of the family to which he belonged, but spared his life. They took Thomas to what was called Sandusky plains, where they raised him in the ways of their tribe.

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In the 1902 county history

10,374 words on this township

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Independence Township covers position and division, the ohio river settlement, prehistoric inhabitants, the valley of dry bones, permanent settlement, the leath family.

Read the chapter on Independence Township - 10,374 words.

Fires nearby

22 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Shay between 2001 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National Forest15 MILE FIRE
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestNEFF RIDGE
27 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestDAVE DECKER FIRE
1 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestTUESDAY FIRE
5 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresWayne National Forest15 MILE
4 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources890
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestSYCAMORE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 246 shown

Museums hold 246 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shay between 1853 and 1975: 219 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright, Bartholomew, E.A. 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
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
Alternaria solani Sorauer1905Post A. LeeLong Reach
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township

All 246 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shay: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone. 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
Mason's House of Flint MineGemstoneProducer1969

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Archers Fork2.0 miles20
Wingett Run2.3 miles16
Steel Run2.7 miles19
Hohman3.0 miles16
Muskingum (historical)3.1 miles16
Deucher3.2 miles20
Dart3.5 miles19
Heslop3.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076872. 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.