Wahanaker, 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. The Survey maps it on the New Matamoras quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
18 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.
- 1905 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
15 since 1992The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Wahanaker between 1992 and 2018, burning about 23 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 | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | RT. 2 |
| 2 May 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | CHERRY STREET |
| 3 April 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | PADEN CITY |
| 24 April 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4672 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 651 |
| 31 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | OLD CAMP ROAD |
| 31 March 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 648 |
| 31 March 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SISTERVILLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 320 shownMuseums hold 320 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wahanaker between 1911 and 1975: 300 Animalia, 9 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Taphrina sacchari Jenkins | 1922 | O.L. Inman | Antioch College |
![]() | Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863 | 1968 | L. Macior | [Not Stated] |
![]() | Arenaria serpyllifolia L. | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry. |
![]() | Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | 1911 | O. E. Jennings | Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry. |
| unnamed (fossil) | 1914 | Collector Unknown | Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest) | |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1921 | Ortmann, Arnold E | Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork |
| Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd. | 1928 | Archer, W. A. | Greenbrier | |
![]() | Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Ohio River tributary, within north of Fly in Jackson township, near Sistersville, Jackson township |
![]() | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, within south Washington township, near Brownsville, Washington township |
![]() | Natrix septemvittata (Say, 1825) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio |
![]() | Natrix sipedon sipedon | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Little Muskingum River, Ex north Ludlow township, ~5.1 mi W of Brownsville, Ludlow township |
All 320 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wahanaker: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcdonough Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| West Virginian Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brownsville | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Trail Run (historical) | 1.9 miles | 18 | |
| Stringtown (historical) | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Fly | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Jericho | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Centerview (historical) | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Alexis | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Poulton | 3.6 miles | 18 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122573099 | 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 1068266. 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.



























