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

Stringtown, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Muskingum Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. It stands on Blunt Run. The Survey maps it on the Dresden quadrangle.

Stringtown within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stringtown, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Stringtown, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Muskingum township, in the words of 1882.

1882, Muskingum Township

Sabbath School In Early Times

Archibald McCann was very devoted to the welfare of the young people of his neighborhood, and on Sabbath gave his whole time to teaching ; opening school in the morning, and continuing all day - in studying the Bible. Mr. McCann was drowned in the canal at Zanesville, on the night of March 2gth, 1839. The drawbridge had been left open, and, the night being dark, he did not discover it, and, walking off, fell into the water.

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Fires nearby

35 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 2014 and 2020, burning about 26 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
Debris and open burning23
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15264
6 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15772
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15753
10 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15750
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15756
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15751
9 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15147
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15584

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 771 shown

Museums hold 771 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stringtown between 1866 and 1975: 607 Animalia, 125 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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 Arabis hesperidoides, not of this specimenArabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray1866Day, D.F.Dresden
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 Lampsilis ovata, not of this specimenLampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)1893Smith, Herbert HAdams Mills, Barrs Mills
A photograph of the species Lycogala exiguum, not of this specimenLycogala exiguum Morgan, 18931893Morgan A.P.Preston
A photograph of the species Ortmanniana ligamentina, not of this specimenOrtmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)1893Smith, Herbert HAdams Mills
Specimen of Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) HumphreyPlasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey1898Selby, A.D.Trinway

All 771 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Stringtown: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baker Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Baker Sand Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Seville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seville Road Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

2 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Stringtown in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
May 2025Flash FloodStringtown-Flooding was reported on State Route 60 between Zanesville and Dresden.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindStringtown-A trained spotter reported multiple trees down.

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
Tremleys (historical)1.1 miles15
Drake1.3 miles15
Terrace Shores2.0 miles15
Ellis2.0 miles15
Gilbert2.1 miles15
Maddens (historical)2.2 miles15
Deadmans (historical)2.2 miles15
Meadowbrook2.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049219. 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.