Welsh, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Scipio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


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.
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
20 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Welsh between 2009 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15781 |
| 21 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15198 |
| 6 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4253 |
| 6 April 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4254 |
| 26 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4626 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11945 |
| 31 March 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 654 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 240 shownMuseums hold 240 specimens collected within 10 miles of Welsh between 1840 and 1973: 209 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard, D. Mote 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Ruellia humilis Nutt. | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Asplenium trichomanes L. | 1840 | Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard | Meigs County, Ohio |
![]() | Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
| Heterakidae | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
| Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
![]() | Oesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 1890 | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
![]() | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp |
![]() | Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
All 240 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pageville | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Carpenter | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Harrisonville | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Dyesville | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Martinsburg (historical) | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Valley Ford | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Snowville | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Dexter | 4.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049303. 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.






















