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

Stovertown, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. It stands on Baughman Run. The Survey maps it on the Philo quadrangle.

Stovertown within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stovertown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Stovertown, surveyed 1910

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 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Stovertown between 2002 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
28 August 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2969
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 682 shown

Museums hold 682 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stovertown between 1873 and 1973: 622 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. M., Adams, William 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 Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. WernerFultonham
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza morganii MasseePeziza morganii Massee1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston

All 682 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stovertown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Muskingum R. Plant No 1 Mine & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Philco, OhioIronProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

3 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Stovertown in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2020FloodStovertown$50,000Multiple reports of flooding across Muskingum and Coshocton County. Near Zanesville, Joes Run stream was out of its banks and a car was stuck along Adams Circle. A few roads were closed near creeks/streams. Flooding was reported in yards in southern Coshocton County. A trained spotter near the city of Coshocton reported 3.31 inches of rain in less than 24 hours.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindStovertown-A tree was blown down on Virgina and Center Road. Time was estimated based on the radar.
July 2012HailStovertown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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
Cannelville2.0 miles14
Brush Creek2.0 miles14
Sealover (historical)2.4 miles14
Frazier2.6 miles15
Hidden Mound3.2 miles15
Buckeye3.3 miles15
Darlington3.7 miles13
Lewis (historical)3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058051. 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.