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Steinersville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43942. It stands on Porters Run. The Survey maps it on the Powhatan Point quadrangle.

Steinersville within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1988

The 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 sheet of Steinersville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Steinersville, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 York township, in the words of 1903.

1903, York Township

Another Indian Massacre. ' And Representative Citizens

"One morning they noticed a young Indian dodging along not far from the fort among the trees. He had been sent by a body of Indians who had ambushed about three miles below, on the banks of the Ohio River, to decoy the soldiers from the fort. As soon as he was discovered, Lieutenant McArthur and his men started out to catch him.

Read the rest of this passage

In the 1903 county history

3,792 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 York Township covers the first election, the battle of captina, the first squatters, an indian village, another indian massacre, the early mills and distilleries.

Read the chapter on York Township - 3,792 words.

Fires nearby

20 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Steinersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2002Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryROBERTS RIDGE
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWASHINGTON LANDS - ROUND BOTTOM
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12565
9 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4187
8 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4185

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 831 shown

Museums hold 831 specimens collected within 10 miles of Steinersville between 1829 and 1975: 620 Plantae, 113 Fungi, 97 Animalia, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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
Specimen of Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829Racodium E.M.Fries, 18291829J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 17631839J.R. Paddock
Specimen of Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1905J.L. SheldonNear Round Bottom
A photograph of the species Persicaria virginiana, not of this specimenPersicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.1835E. WilkinsonOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sparganioides, not of this specimenCarex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.1837B. FrankOhio
A photograph of the species Carex sullivantii, not of this specimenCarex × sullivantii Boott1842W. S. SullivantOhio
A photograph of the species Homalothecium subcapillatum, not of this specimenHomalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.1843D. Sullivan
A photograph of the species Euphorbia maculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia maculata L.1844S. B. MeadOhio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Carex gracilescens, not of this specimenCarex gracilescens Steud.1847G. B. AshcroftOhio
A photograph of the species Carex stricta, not of this specimenCarex stricta Lam.1853E. L. MoseleyOhio
A photograph of the species Cylindrothecium seductrix, not of this specimenCylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull.1863D. Sullivan

All 831 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Steinersville: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Bituminous, Silica. 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
Captina Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Dilles Bottom Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Point QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer
Powhatan Point PlantSilicaUnknown
Captina Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Belmont County

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Steinersville in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2011FloodSteinersville$25,000Emergency management reported SR 7 closed due to flooding from Turkey Run near Shadyside, as well as flooding near Powhatan Point from Moores Run and Cats Run along SR 148 and CR 56.
April 2024Flash FloodSteinersville-State Road 148 was closed due to flooding.
March 2015FloodSteinersville-Emergency management reported that State Route 148 was closed due to an ice jam on Cats Run near the Powhatan area. State Route 149 was also flooded and closed west of Belaire due to ice jam on McMahon Creek.

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Powhatan Point1.0 miles15
Captina2.5 miles15
Vadis3.9 miles15
Businessburg4.4 miles15
Dilles Bottom4.5 miles15
Haven On The Ohio Park4.8 miles15
Clover Hill4.9 miles15
Dorsey (historical)5.7 miles12

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 SteinersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134310The 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 1065380. 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.