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Warnock, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43967. It stands on Neffs Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clairsville quadrangle. It stands 932 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1905 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 81 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
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.
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS St. Clairsville 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 St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
6,198 words on this townshipCentennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Smith Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Smith township was probably named after William Smith, one of the first settlers in the township, who located at what is now known as Warnock's station in 1805, and built the first log grist mill in the township.
Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.
The township is in the form of a square surrounded by Richland, Mead, Goshen and Washington townships, and contains 36 sections. While the surface is cjuite broken, and the hills in places steep, the soil is productive and the hills are clad in grass, or crowned with grain to their summits. The soil for the most part is underlaid with sandstone, and in places there are immense quarries of building stone of great value. Sheep, cattle and grain growing are the principal industries, though tobacco is still grown in limited quantities. In early days it was the leading agricultural product.
Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.
Rankin, John and Adam Walters, George Holmes and family, and David Snyder in 1806; William Wilson in 1802; William Foreman in 1805 ; Hans Wiley, a native of Ireland, in 1805; Daniel Meyers in 1807; George Klrick in 1807; John Matthews, Frederick and Jacob Anltfather, James Miller from New Jersey, in 1805; Samuel Lucas, Thomas Foster, Jacob Fitch, Samuel and Robert Clark, John McKisson, William Barrett, John Allen, Philip Aller, John Ewers, John Porterfield, Miles Hart, iVifios Glover, Michael Ault, Joseph Rankin, George Holmes, William Piper, Samuel McKirahan, David Randall and Daniel and Adam Walters.
Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.
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 Smith Township - it names this place 17 more 17 times.
Fires near this place
16 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Warnock between 2002 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 May 2017 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9666 |
| 4 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15137 |
| 30 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15559 |
| 23 March 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7609 |
| 23 March 2017 | Other causes | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7568 |
| 20 March 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15011 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 909 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 909 specimens collected within 10 miles of Warnock between 1829 and 1975: 609 Plantae, 191 Animalia, 108 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829 | 1829 | J.R. Paddock | |
 | Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763 | 1839 | J.R. Paddock | |
 | Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore | 1971 | Cusick, A.W. | disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp. |
 | Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn. | 1835 | E. Wilkinson | Ohio |
 | Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1837 | B. Frank | Ohio |
 | Carex × sullivantii Boott | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant | Ohio |
 | Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull. | 1843 | D. Sullivan | |
 | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1844 | S. B. Mead | Ohio |
 | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | |
 | Carex gracilescens Steud. | 1847 | G. B. Ashcroft | Ohio |
 | Carex stricta Lam. | 1853 | E. L. Moseley | Ohio |
 | Cylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull. | 1863 | D. Sullivan |
All 909 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warnock in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Flash Flood | Warnock | $20,000 | Emergency manager reported several roads partially or completely closed due to flash flooding including the Intersection of route 149 and route 9, South Pipe Creek Road, Weegee Road, state route 147 at Baileys Mills, Number One School Road, state route 800 at mile marker 2. 25, and Slope Creek Road. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warnock | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Warnock | $500 | State Department of Highways reports trees down. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Warnock | - | State Route 9 closed due to flooding along Neffs Run and McMahon Creek. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Warnock | - | Route 9 flooded. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Warnock | - | Thunderstorm rains of over two inches in an hour forced Neffs Run out of its banks, which produced roadway flooding in the Warnock area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitney | 0.8 miles | 17 | |
| Lamira | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Glencoe | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Homeside | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Centerville | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| East Richland | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Loomis | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Kelsey (historical) | 4.2 miles | 12 |
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 Warnock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7969844 | 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 1082196. 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.