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Warner, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45745. It stands on West Fork Duck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lower Salem quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
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.
- 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Lower Salem quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
19,814 words on this townshipHistory of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Salem Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
At the first ox-bow are the sharply defined bluffs known as Mount Pisgah - a favorite resort for picnicers, and easily accessible by railroads. A couple of depressions in the rock resembling footprints are pointed out, doubtless to the great edification of the children at the Sunday-school picnics, as the place ''where Moses stood, to view the landscape o'er."
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
The native forests are of oak, chestnut, and kindred trees, sugar maple, walnut, beech, buckeye and the like. So far as known, Salem township is the richest in the county in coal. One seam is generally found roofed with a heavy sandstone, from which it derives its name. This deposit is undoubtedly the most extensive formation of coal in the county. On Bear creek it is thickest toward the north, having been mined when it was as thick as five feet. Thecoal in the Bowen mine, farther south, is three and a half feet thick. It was sent, as fast as mined, to the Muskingum, by means of a road up the creek, built for that purpose. But the best development of this seam is on Duck creek, especially in the hills bordering the East fork, and in different places between the two forks.
Passage source: History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881.
L. Haas, born in Bavaria in 1789, came to Salem township in 1840 from Pennsylvania, where he had been four years. He was one of Napoleon's soldiers for four years, and engaged in the battles at Moscow and Waterloo. In 1809 he married Sophia Lorentz, in Bavaria. His children are Mrs. Elizabeth Trapp, of Lowell; Matthias Haas, of Warner; Christina, who is unmarried, and Valentine, of Salem township. The latter married Joanna M. Boger in 1841, and has these children, all living: Charles, Wallace, Jacob, William, Elizabeth, and Rosa.
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 Salem Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Fires near this place
5 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Warner between 2015 and 2020, burning about 24 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 | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2016 | Other causes | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5625 |
| 5 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 710 |
| 27 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Wayne National Forest | NOBLE COUNTY LINE |
| 18 March 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3810 |
| 17 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 3886 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 500 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 500 specimens collected within 10 miles of Warner between 1853 and 1975: 463 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. L. McElhose, Adams, N.; Adams, S. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1932 | C. May | Marietta |
 | Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers. | 1932 | L.W.R.J. | Nursery, Marietta |
 | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 21, 3 miles north of Marietta. |
 | Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
| Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827) | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta | |
 | Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843 | 1853 | not recorded | Marietta |
 | Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801) | 1883 | Albert Hazen Wright | Marietta |
 | Trillium sessile L. | 1884 | None | Macksburg |
 | Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. | 1896 | A. D. Selby | Rainbow. |
All 500 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
7 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warner in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 6 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2013 | Flood | Warner | $40,000 | With repetitive rounds of showers and thunderstorms, Duck Creek rose late on the 9th and reached bankfull by the 10th. The stream gauge at Whipple crested at 16.39 feet during the evening of the 10th. Yet, the creek remained in flood through most of the 11th.||Numerous roads were blocked, including Route 821 south of Whipple and Route 145 near Lower Salem. This caused residents to seek alternate routes. One county road was damaged by the high water. One person was evacuated as a precaution, as water surrounded her house. Water from a feeder creek was 8 to 10 inches deep in a fire station.||Other creeks, like Cat Creek near Lowell, also flooded some roads. |
| September 2015 | Flood | Warner | $5,000 | The West Fork of Duck Creek crested around 14 feet, or about a foot over bankfull in the vicinity of Macksburg. This caused minor street flooding in the town. Further down Duck Creek, Route 821 was flooded in places near Whipple. The gauge near Whipple crested around 11.5 feet during the afternoon of the 30th. Bankfull at Whipple is 11 feet. ||The Little Muskingum River rose some 13 feet in the vertical and crested around 16.8 feet during the morning of the 30th. That is less than a foot above its 16 foot bankfull stage. A few small sections of State Route 28 were flooded. |
| January 2018 | Flood | Warner | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Warner | $500 | Flooding was observed along local roadways adjacent to the Muskingum River as well as Duck Creek near Whipple. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Warner | - | State Route 821 was closed from Peaker Run Road to Fir Lane due to flooding. |
| January 2024 | Flood | Warner | - | The Duck Creek gage below Whipple exceeded its bankfull level of 12 feet on the evening of January 28th. The creek crested around 12.6 feet early the next morning, then returned to its banks on the afternoon of the 29th. Flooding occurred near the intersection of Kohl Road and Whipple Run Road. Route 16 also flooded above Stanleyville during this time. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Warner | - | Duck Creek below Whipple rose above its bankfull level early in the morning on April 12th. The creek crested around 13.4 feet late that morning and then returned to its banks that night. While the creek was out of its banks, the intersection of Kohl Road and Whipple Run Road flooded due to backwater flooding of Whipple Run. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Salem | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Bonn | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Whipple | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Elba | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Buells (historical) | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lowell | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Macksburg | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Rainbow | 5.3 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 Warner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133382 | 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 1047568. 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.