Union Ridge, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Middleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44455. It lies in Camp Hollow. The Survey maps it on the East Palestine quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1907 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 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.
- 1907 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
In the 1879 county history
19,600 words on this townshipThe county history of 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Middleton Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Middleton Township - 19,600 words.
Fires nearby
24 since 2010The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Union Ridge between 2010 and 2020, burning about 28 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 | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1181 |
| 29 May 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1741 |
| 6 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 866 |
| 3 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4653 |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 639 shownMuseums hold 639 specimens collected within 10 miles of Union Ridge between 1882 and 1975: 320 Animalia, 300 Plantae, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Athearn, Herbert D. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson | 1885 | Shafer, J.A. | Petersburg |
![]() | Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon | 1916 | E.K. Seymour | Lower campus |
![]() | Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
![]() | Solanum dulcamara L. | 1882 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
![]() | Equisetum hyemale subsp. affine (A.Braun & Engelm.) A.A.Eaton | 1883 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
![]() | Levisticum officinale W.D.J.Koch | 1883 | Shafer, J.A. | Petersburg |
![]() | Armoracia rusticana P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | Wm. Hills place near Petersburg |
![]() | Botrychium dissectum Spreng. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
![]() | Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
![]() | Chelone glabra L. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
![]() | Clematis virginiana L. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | Petersburg |
![]() | Cornus florida L. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
All 639 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
4 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Union Ridge: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Bituminous. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negley Refractories Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Negley Refractories Pit | Clay, Bituminous | Past Producer | ||
| Coppock Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Coppock Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
2 since 2016The National Weather Service names Union Ridge in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Union Ridge | $5,000 | Emergency management reported numerous trees down. |
| April 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Union Ridge | - | A second damage swath coincident with a second radar-detected |circulation and distinct from the Rogers/Negley tornado above was |encountered west along Carmel Achor Road, beginning in the woods |north of the road. This path proceeded south-southeastward with |continuous limb damage and occasional stronger gusts leading to |uprooted trees. Structural damage encountered along this segment |of the path seems to have resulted from falling trees rather than |wind.||The track curved eastward along Pancake Clarkson Road, crossing at|into Beaver County, PA at the Pennsylvania state line, where it |appears to have intensified and widened slightly. In this |location, numerous evergreen trees were snapped or uprooted in the|Sheepskin Hollow State Nature Preserve.||The circulation weakened quickly thereafter, with occasional tree|damage continuing to near Lihi Road and Lisbon Road in Beaver|County before evidence of a path disappeared altogether. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achor | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Mill Rock | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| East Carmel | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Negley | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Clarkson | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| Rogers | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Jimtown | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Wheat Hill Estates | 4.1 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049258. 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.




























