Stringtown, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45120. The Survey maps it on the Felicity quadrangle.
Then and now
1931 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 55 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
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1931 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Stringtown in 2004, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 85 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 85 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stringtown between 1896 and 1974: 60 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Braun, E. Lucy, Bureau of Fisheries 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Geothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811) | 1896 | A.M Bradford | Bradford |
![]() | Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Point Pleasant |
![]() | Plethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Point Pleasant |
![]() | Cladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad., 1794 | 1913 | Braun, E. Lucy | Bethel |
![]() | Usnea strigosella | 1913 | Braun, E. Lucy | Bethel |
![]() | Asclepias incarnata L. | 1917 | Braun, E. Lucy | Bethel |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1917 | Braun, E. Lucy | near Bethel |
| Cladonia verticillata (Hoffm.) Schaer. | 1917 | Braun, E. Lucy | Bethel | |
| Liquidambar styraciflua L. | 1917 | Braun, E. Lucy | near Bethel | |
| Sabatia angularis (L.) Pursh | 1917 | Braun, E. Lucy | Bethel | |
| Catharinea Ehrh. ex D.Mohr | 1918 | Braun, E. Lucy | ||
![]() | Polytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot | 1918 | Braun, E. Lucy |
All 85 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stringtown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedron Stone | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Howerton Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felicity | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| Cedron | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Chilo | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Rural | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Utopia | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Olive | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Point Isabel | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Neville | 6.1 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049218. 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.













