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

Taylortown, Ohio

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Island Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43964. It stands on Hale Run. The Survey maps it on the Knoxville quadrangle.

Taylortown within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Taylortown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Taylortown, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 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

22 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Taylortown between 1995 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7832
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15619
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPOLK STREET
1 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1783
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 638 shown

Museums hold 638 specimens collected within 10 miles of Taylortown between 1836 and 1974: 376 Animalia, 223 Plantae, 39 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1836Jewett
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
Specimen of Catocala amatrix Hübner, 1813Catocala amatrix Hübner, 18131941not recordedSteubenville, Union Cemetery
A photograph of the species Carex hirsutella, not of this specimenCarex hirsutella Mack.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium latifolium, not of this specimenDichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon, not of this specimenDichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Elymus hystrix, not of this specimenElymus hystrix L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1877Guttenberg, G.near Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum mutilum, not of this specimenHypericum mutilum L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum punctatum, not of this specimenHypericum punctatum Lam.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Luzula echinata, not of this specimenLuzula echinata (Small) F.J.Herm.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville

All 638 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Taylortown: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Hardin Run Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Hardin Run Clay MineClayProducer
Kaul Clay Company PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Mellwood Acres0.4 miles23
Ridgeland1.1 miles23
Island Creek1.3 miles23
Wallace Heights1.5 miles23
Shady Glen1.6 miles23
Fairview Heights2.1 miles24
Pekin2.2 miles23
Markle2.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049240. 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.