Block
Wheeling Creek, Ohio
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pease Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43912. It lies in Mutton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lansing quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 89 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 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 Lansing quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Lansing 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
- 1994 USGS Lansing quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
11,634 words on this townshipCentennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Pease Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Wheeling Creek and Glenn's Run furnished excellent water power for the first grist mills, some of which are substantial stone structures, in a fair state of preservation. This is notably true of the great Oglebay stone mill, about three miles west of the river, and the old Kinsey mill at the foot of the "big hill," which only recently disappeared. The Oglebay mill has served as a landmark for half a century. Its crumbling stone walls and bastions look like an old world fortress in decay.
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.
Fires near this place
20 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Wheeling Creek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BENWOOD - FALLOVA DRIVE |
| 6 May 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | PINE HILL ROAD |
| 18 April 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WV RT. 2 |
| 17 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15159 |
| 13 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 11 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | NORTH PARK |
| 12 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12065 |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15448 |
| 24 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7949 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,250 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,250 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wheeling Creek between 1800 and 1975: 1,039 Plantae, 117 Fungi, 92 Animalia, 2 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 | |
 | Dysodia oculatana Clemens, 1860 | 1975 | not recorded | |
 | Houstonia caerulea L. | 1800 | Guttenberg, G. | near Wheeling |
 | Robinia L. | 1829 | Guttenberg, G. | Wheeling |
 | 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 |
All 1,250 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wheeling Creek: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Bituminous, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayers Limestone Quarry,Inc. | Bituminous, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wheeling-Pgh/ Martins Ferry, Ohio | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Ayers Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Benwood Plant | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presidential Estates | 0.1 miles | 18 | |
| Wolfhurst | 0.2 miles | 18 | |
| Boydsville | 0.7 miles | 18 | |
| Lansing | 0.8 miles | 18 | |
| Brookside | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Blaine | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| West Wheeling | 2.0 miles | 27 | |
| Lombardy Heights | 2.0 miles | 27 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061771. 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.