Spratt, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rich Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43727. It stands on South Fork York Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cumberland quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 83 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
14 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.
- 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
9 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Spratt between 2013 and 2019, burning about 38 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15064 |
| 23 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 490 |
| 16 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7385 |
| 3 November 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 995 shownMuseums hold 995 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spratt between 1908 and 1975: 937 Animalia, 55 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Tabanus quinquevittatus Wiedemann, 1821 | 1916 | O. | |
![]() | Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878 | 1916 | O. | |
![]() | Catocala amatrix Hübner, 1813 | 1954 | Betty Dasch | New Concord |
![]() | Bubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788) | 1908 | A. H. Wright | New Concord |
![]() | Medicago sativa L. | 1911 | Coleman, J. | New Concord |
| Anthophoridae | 1916 | not recorded | ||
![]() | Bombus vagans Smith, 1854 | 1916 | P.R. Lowry | |
![]() | Colletes nudus Robertson, 1898 | 1916 | unknown | |
![]() | Linognathus vituli (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1920 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Solenopotes capillatus Enderlein, 1904 | 1920 | P. R. Lowry | |
![]() | Strigiphilus Mjoberg, 1910 | 1920 | P. R. Lowry | |
| Allocapnia recta (Claassen, 1924) | 1935 | H.H. Ross |
All 995 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spratt: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ohio Power Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Puskarich Limestone Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Clair (historical) | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Freeland | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Rich Hill (historical) | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| High Hill | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Rix Mills | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Smith (historical) | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Zeno | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Chandlersville | 5.3 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Spratt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134298 | 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 1063032. 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.























