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Veto, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Dunham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45714. It stands on Plum Run. The Survey maps it on the Little Hocking quadrangle.
Then and now
1902 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1902 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.
- 1902 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,448 words on this townshipHistory of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Dunham Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
ON THE fifth of June, 1855, the tract of territory three miles wide and eight miles long, bounded on the north by Warren and Barlow, on the east by the Ohio, on the south by Belpre, and on the west by Decatur and Fairfield, was established by the county commissioners an independent township, with corporate powers. On the petition of William P. Cutler, Dean Briggs and others, the boundary line between Warren and Dunham was changed and established as it now exists, October 19, 1855.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
The cemetery on the Shaw farm, near Veto post office, was set apart for the use of the public upon the death of Joseph Tilton, one of the first settlers of that section of the township. It has been entensively used by the citizens of Scotch descent.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
About 1850 the farmers of Dunham fell into the habit of holding plowing exhibitions, which excited a great deal of interest throughout the community. These tests of skill soon became more general, and finally grew into a general agricultural fair. An association, of which J. J. Hollister was chosen president, was formed, grounds near Veto post office were leased and improved, and interesting annual exhibitions were held until the second year of the war, when for various reasons the enterprise was abandoned.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Dunham Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Veto between 2016 and 2016, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 October 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5906 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 300 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 300 specimens collected within 10 miles of Veto between 1877 and 1974: 160 Fungi, 121 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., Archer, W. A., Bartholomew E. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl. | 1922 | E. Bartholomew | |
 | Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl. | 1937 | Blickle, A.H. | Parkersburg |
 | Petrova houseri Miller, 1959 | 1954 | W. Miller | Veto |
 | Inula helenium L. | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | Parkersburg |
 | Sonchus asper (L.) Hill | 1877 | Guttenberg, G. | Parkersburg |
 | Amaranthus spinosus L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Parkersburg |
 | Clinopodium vulgare L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G.* | Parkersburg |
 | Scutellaria nervosa Pursh | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Parkersburg |
 | Rorippa palustris var. fernaldiana (Butters & Abbe) Stuckey | 1891 | C. F. Millspaugh | Parkersburg. |
 | Uromyces asclepiadis Cooke | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | Belpre |
 | Botryosphaeria ribis Grossenb. & Duggar | 1927 | Shear C. L. | Parkersburg |
| Coniothyrium Corda, 1840 | 1927 | Martin G. Hamilton | Parkersburg |
All 300 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
3 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veto in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Flash Flood | Veto | $5,000 | A car was swept off a flooded road near Veto. A small tributary to Duck Creek flooded and closed the road near the intersection of Route 26 and County Home Lane. Sandhill Road was flooded near Reno. Minor urban street flooding was common in Marietta. |
| May 2012 | Flash Flood | Veto | $5,000 | Streams flooded and closed several roads. The rain gauge at Fifteen reported 1.8 inches of rain in about 6 hours. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veto | $500 | Veto Road was blocked by a fallen tree. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corner | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Vincent | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Dunham | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Tick Ridge | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Napier | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Dunbar | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Barlow | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Porterfield | 4.1 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Veto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133379 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065436. 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.