Triadelphia, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43758. It stands on South Branch Island Run. The Survey maps it on the Rokeby Lock quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 84 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
13 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.
- 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Rokeby Lock quadrangle1:24000
In the 1880 county history
474 words on this townshipThe county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Deerfield Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Deerfield Township - 474 words.
Fires nearby
16 since 2013The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Triadelphia between 2013 and 2020, burning about 48 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4729 |
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13507 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 711 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 883 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 301 shownMuseums hold 301 specimens collected within 10 miles of Triadelphia between 1887 and 1973: 267 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cercis canadensis L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Gleditsia triacanthos L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville. |
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
| Leskea obscura Hedw. | 1896 | W. A. Kellerman | ||
![]() | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
![]() | Merulius incarnatus Schwein. | 1906 | Collector unspecified | McConnellsville |
![]() | Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr. | 1908 | Coker W. C. | Chapel Hill |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1911 | B.R. Bales | Ringgold |
![]() | Puccinia graminis Pers. | 1919 | Ricker A. J. | MCCONNELSVILLE |
![]() | Ambystoma Tschudi, 1838 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio |
| Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915) | 1927 | F. N. | McConnelsville |
All 301 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
2 since 1996The National Weather Service names Triadelphia in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Triadelphia | $10,000 | An automatic gauge near McConnelsville reported 2.2 inches of rain in 2 to 3 hours between 1800 and 2100E. Another .5 inches of rain fell between 2200E and 2300E. Rain estimates of over 3 inches fell around Joetown. ||Small streams flooded roads. One example was in the Millers Run basin, where County Route 56 was flooded. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Triadelphia | $2,000 | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halls Valley (historical) | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Joetown | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Eagleport | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Rokeby Lock | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Deavertown | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Durant | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Morganville | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Chaneyville (historical) | 5.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077069. 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.
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.






















