BlockWalnut, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43103. The Survey maps it on the East Ringgold quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1914 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 printed 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.
- 1914 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,437 words on this townshipHistory of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Walnut Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first permanent settlement made in this township was in 1797 or 1798. There were white people living here prior to this period, but they did not continue long as residents. Unfortunately, the early township records have been lost, so that it i$ impossible to state when the township was organized. It is a settled fact, however, that the township organization existed before the formation of the county. The township, as originally set off and surveyed, was six miles square. As it was considered that Walnut Creek would make the most satisfactory boundary line between this township and Harrison, it was finally arranged to detach the northwestern portion of Walnut township lying west of Walnut Creek and add it to the territory of Harrison township, while that portion of Harrison township south of Walnut Creek was set over to Walnut township. The boundary line w as a matter of considerable moment to the settler in the early days, when there were no bridges across Walnut Creek, which stream was difficult to cross at certain seasons of the year. The present boundaries of the township are as follows : Walnut Creek and Madison township on the north; Fairfield County on the east; Washington and Circleville townships on the south and Walnut Creek and the Scioto River on the west. The population of the township in 1900 was 1,455. The township officials for 1906 are as follows: Trustees - John H. Peters,
Passage source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906.
As stated previously. Walnut Creek forms nearly the whole western boundary of the township. Little Walnut Creek flows through the township from east to west and empties into Walnut Creek in section 18. Little Walnut has many tributaries, chief among which is Turkey Run. The surface of the township is generally undulating, being considerably more rolling in the eastern part than it is in the central and western sections. The highest point of the township. East Ringgold, is several hundred feet above Circleville. The early settlers found this section of the county covered | with various varieties of timber, which con- I sisted principally of walnut, butternut, hickory,
Passage source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906.
Near East Ringgold are found three ; mounds, attributed to the Mound Builders, that . in their situation are quite interesting. These I mounds, which were originally of a conical ; shape, extend in a nearly straight line from j east to west with but a few yards interval be- 1 tween and are from 15 to 20 feet in height.
Passage source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906.
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 Walnut Township - it names this place 21 more 21 times.
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Walnut in 2019, burning about 10 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15349 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,580 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,580 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walnut between 1876 and 1975: 1,398 Animalia, 141 Fungi, 39 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Bartley, F., Arledge, F., B. R. & B. D. Bales 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Aecidium galii Pers. | 1883 | Kellerman, W.A. | Amanda |
 | Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | Amanda |
 | Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1892 | W.A. Kellerman | |
 | Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812 | 1876 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA |
 | Bartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr | 1880 | W. Kellerman | |
 | Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | Mearns, E.A. | Circleville near Scioto River. |
 | Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818) | 1880 | Jones, H. (Howard) | Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio |
| Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1882 | W. Kellerman | ||
 | Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Auricularia auricula (L.) Underw. | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Bisporella pallescens (Pers.) S.E.Carp. & Korf | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | Amanda. |
All 1,580 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska (historical) | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| East Ringgold | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Marcy | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Paul | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Ashville | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Little Chicago | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Cromley (historical) | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Ashton Crossing | 5.6 miles | 11 |
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 Walnut | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23698529 | 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 1063080. 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.