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

Speidel, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1962. It stands in Goshen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43719. The Survey maps it on the Bethesda quadrangle.

Speidel within Belmont County

Then and now

1903 to 1962

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Speidel, surveyed 1962

Topographic sheet of Speidel, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1903 county history

5,147 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Goshen Township covers capture of lewis wetzel and his brother, the first settlements, spinning in the olden time, early settlers, township officials and population, goshen township in the civil war.

Read the chapter on Goshen Township - 5,147 words.

Fires nearby

6 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Speidel between 2002 and 2016, burning about 18 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 November 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	6386

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 184 shown

Museums hold 184 specimens collected within 10 miles of Speidel between 1884 and 1975: 145 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 10 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1884	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	West Wheeling, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J.	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Jones, J. (Jesse)	Martin's Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Blephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth.	1887	Koenig, A.	near Temperanceville
Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	Belmont, Ohio, USA
Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	2 miles south-east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA
Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Pogue, G. M. (George Marion)	1/2 mile east of Loydsville, Belmont, Ohio, USA

All 184 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tacoma	1.8 miles	13
Olivett	1.9 miles	13
Bethesda	2.4 miles	12
Badgertown	2.5 miles	12
Barnesville	3.5 miles	13
Belmont	4.4 miles	12
Morristown	4.7 miles	12
Hunter	4.8 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 Q122557120

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 1065364. 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.