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

Stratton, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Knox Township. It stands on Blacks Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle. 267 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Stratton within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Stratton fell from 294 to 267 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010294
2020267-27 (-9%)

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stratton, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Stratton, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

23 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Stratton between 1994 and 2018, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 June 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWASHINGTON SCHOOL ROAD
16 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
13 June 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryGAS VALLEY RD.
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryARROYO ROAD
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPOLK STREET
29 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 208
28 April 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPINE LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 282 shown

Museums hold 282 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stratton between 1878 and 1973: 153 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Acker, G. 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 Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Anisothecium varium, not of this specimenAnisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.1878J. D. SmithNewburgh
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Glomerella rufomaculans, not of this specimenGlomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk1904Sheldon J. L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
Galinsoga quadriradiata Ruiz & Pav.1909Vickers, E.W.along Ohio River opposite Wellsville, OH
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1909Vickers, E.W.near Wellsville, Ohio, WV bank of Ohio River

All 282 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Stratton: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Deep Run Plant--Cresent Brick CoFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Iron City Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Iron City Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dando MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Dando MineClayPast Producer
Hardin Run Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Hardin Run Clay MineClayProducer
Kaul Clay Company PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms nearby

5 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Stratton in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 5 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindStratton$10,000Thunderstorm winds produced minor damage to a building.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindStratton$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindStratton$2,000Trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStratton-A local 911 call center reported trees and wires down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindStratton-A wind gust to 75 mph was reported at the New Cumberland Lock and Dam.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Empire1.0 miles22
Port Homer1.7 miles22
Sugar Grove1.9 miles22
Calumet2.9 miles24
Shady Glen3.0 miles23
Knoxville3.5 miles23
Fairview Heights4.2 miles24
Toronto4.2 miles24

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 StrattonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2357827The 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 1058052. 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.