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.
Then and now
1905 to 1988The 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
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.
- 1905 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Moundsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on York township, in the words of 1903.
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.
In the 1903 county history
3,792 words on this townshipThe 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 1992The 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | ROBERTS RIDGE |
| 11 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 April 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WASHINGTON LANDS - ROUND BOTTOM |
| 14 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12565 |
| 9 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4187 |
| 8 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4185 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 831 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829 | 1829 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1839 | J.R. Paddock | |
![]() | Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont. | 1905 | J.L. Sheldon | Near Round Bottom |
![]() | Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn. | 1835 | E. Wilkinson | Ohio |
![]() | Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1837 | B. Frank | Ohio |
![]() | Carex × sullivantii Boott | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant | Ohio |
![]() | Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull. | 1843 | D. Sullivan | |
![]() | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1844 | S. B. Mead | Ohio |
![]() | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | |
![]() | Carex gracilescens Steud. | 1847 | G. B. Ashcroft | Ohio |
![]() | Carex stricta Lam. | 1853 | E. L. Moseley | Ohio |
![]() | Cylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull. | 1863 | D. Sullivan |
All 831 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
5 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captina Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Dilles Bottom Plant and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Point Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous | Producer | ||
| Powhatan Point Plant | Silica | Unknown | ||
| Captina Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
3 since 2011The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2011 | Flood | Steinersville | $25,000 | Emergency 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 2024 | Flash Flood | Steinersville | - | State Road 148 was closed due to flooding. |
| March 2015 | Flood | Steinersville | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powhatan Point | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Captina | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Vadis | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Businessburg | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Dilles Bottom | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Haven On The Ohio Park | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Clover Hill | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Dorsey (historical) | 5.7 miles | 12 |
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 Steinersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134310 | 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 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.


























