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

Trail Run, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It stands on Little Trail Run. The Survey maps it on the New Matamoras quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Trail Run within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Trail Run (historical), surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Trail Run (historical), surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

11 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Trail Run (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 16 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 burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
2 May 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 2
2 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCHERRY STREET
3 April 1995Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPADEN CITY
24 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4672
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources651
23 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4669
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestBROWN FIRE
18 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 349 shown

Museums hold 349 specimens collected within 10 miles of Trail Run (historical) between 1860 and 1975: 328 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 9 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Dysphania botrys, not of this specimenDysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.1928Archer, W. A.Greenbrier
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Ohio River tributary, within north of Fly in Jackson township, near Sistersville, Jackson township

All 349 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 Trail Run (historical): 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcdonough PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
West Virginian DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Alexis1.7 miles17
Wahanaker1.9 miles18
Brownsville2.7 miles18
Mechanicsburg2.8 miles17
Jericho3.0 miles18
Antioch3.2 miles17
Poulton3.9 miles18
Greenbrier3.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1051032. 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.