Slickaway, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45101. It stands on Slickaway Run. The Survey maps it on the Maysville East quadrangle.
Then and now
1929 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1929 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:48000
- 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Maysville East quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
1 since 2014The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Slickaway between 2014 and 2014, burning about 0 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 152 shownMuseums hold 152 specimens collected within 10 miles of Slickaway between 1843 and 1974: 119 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Bartley, F. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Physcomitrium immersum Sull. | 1843 | W. S. Sullivant; A. Gray | ad fluminis Ohio ripas prope Maysville, Kentucky [bank of Ohio River, near Maysville] |
![]() | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | Kellerman W. A. | Cedar Hill |
![]() | Stictis Pers., 1800 | 1883 | Kellerman W. A. | Cedar Hill |
| Cercospora circumscissa Sacc. | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley | |
![]() | Cercospora sordida Sacc. | 1899 | King H. B. | Ripley |
![]() | Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley |
| Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley | |
| Microsphaera peckii U.Braun | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley | |
![]() | Microsphaera ravenelii Berk. | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley |
![]() | Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr. | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley |
![]() | Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley |
![]() | Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | near Ripley, Union Twp., Brown Co., Ohio |
All 152 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Slickaway: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maysville Kiln | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Buckeye Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Franfort Mtls. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Maysville Dredging, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms nearby
7 since 2008The National Weather Service names Slickaway in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slickaway | $10,000 | Several trees and power lines were downed between Ripley and Aberdeen. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slickaway | $3,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slickaway | $1,000 | A large tree limb fell onto a car. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slickaway | $1,000 | One tree was downed near Aberdeen due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Slickaway | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Slickaway | $500 | A tree was downed near the intersection of State Routes 41 and 763. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Slickaway | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellsberry | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Huntington Park | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Aberdeen | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hiett | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Clems Shady Nook Park | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hestoria | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Neel | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| East Ripley | 6.4 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 Q122541462 | 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 1063020. 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.























