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.
Then and now
1905 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 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.
- 1905 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Independence township, in the words of 1902.
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.
In the 1902 county history
10,374 words on this townshipThe 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 2001The 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 burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 15 MILE FIRE |
| 13 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | NEFF RIDGE |
| 27 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | DAVE DECKER FIRE |
| 1 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | TUESDAY FIRE |
| 5 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | 15 MILE |
| 4 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 890 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SYCAMORE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 246 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
![]() | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
![]() | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
| Alternaria solani Sorauer | 1905 | Post A. Lee | Long Reach | |
![]() | Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, 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 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mason's House of Flint Mine | Gemstone | Producer | 1969 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archers Fork | 2.0 miles | 20 | |
| Wingett Run | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Steel Run | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Hohman | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Muskingum (historical) | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Deucher | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Dart | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Heslop | 3.6 miles | 15 |
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.

























