Stillhouse Run, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1988. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43915. It stands on Stillhouse Run. The Survey maps it on the Powhatan Point quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
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
9 surveys from 15 printed 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, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Powhatan Point quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Moundsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Stillhouse Run (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 37 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WAYNES RIDGE |
| 6 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4847 |
| 13 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 905 |
| 1 April 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WAYNE RIDGE ROAD |
| 7 March 2000 | Smoking | 12 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | RINES RIDGE ROAD |
| 24 March 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BURCH RIDGE |
| 19 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15412 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 314 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 314 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stillhouse Run (historical) between 1860 and 1975: 300 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew, E.A., Buker, W.E., David M. Dennis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat. | 1924 | L.L. Lehman | |
![]() | Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein. | 1931 | F. O. Grover | S of Oak point, woods |
![]() | Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 | 1860 | unknown | Willow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr. |
![]() | Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867) | 1860 | unknown | Willow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr. |
![]() | Aralia racemosa L. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Astragalus canadensis L. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Desmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martin[s]ville |
![]() | Sericocarpus asteroides (L.) Britton, Stern & Poggenb. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Asplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell | 1879 | Guttenberg, G. | New Martinsville |
![]() | Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq. | 1897 | Guttenberg, H.G. | New Martinville |
![]() | Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 | 1901 | Sterki, Victor | Clarington |
All 314 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clarington | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Switzer | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Dwight | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Cameron | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Oak | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Rockport (historical) | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Round Bottom | 6.8 miles | 18 | |
| Bingham | 7.1 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067353. 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.




















