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

Stewart, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45778. It stands on Piper Run. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.

Stewart within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stewart, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Stewart, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Fires nearby

27 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Stewart between 2006 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. 1 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
23 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5926
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15774
30 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15139
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7290
29 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15553

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 446 shown

Museums hold 446 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stewart between 1831 and 1975: 333 Animalia, 71 Plantae, 38 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle 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 Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ribes L.Ribes L.1969Dr. Wm. G. Gambill Jr.0.25 miles east of Mill Street Bridge on Harmony Road.
Specimen of Penthorum sedoides L.Penthorum sedoides L.1970Wm. G. Gambill Jr.Southeast of Athens.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1918Selby A. D.Athens Co.
A photograph of the species Cynips Linnaeus, not of this specimenCynips Linnaeus, 17581928A. C. KinseyCoolville
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp

All 446 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Stewart in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
April 2001LightningStewart$40,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindStewart$5,000A small wooden ticket booth at a race track was blown over. Some of the affected trees had signs of decay. A roof was damaged.
January 2024FloodStewart-State Route 329 was closed in both directions due to flooding between State Route 144 and State Route 550.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindStewart-Several trees were blown down.
May 1999HailStewart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Cole0.9 miles14
Beebe2.0 miles13
Guysville2.0 miles14
Kilvert2.6 miles14
New England3.0 miles14
Big Run3.5 miles13
Broadwell4.0 miles14
Frost4.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076966. 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.

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.