Wilson, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Sunsbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43716. The Survey maps it on the Woodsfield quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 97 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
14 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 Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
11 since 2014The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 2014 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 2 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5545 |
| 9 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15819 |
| 3 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12585 |
| 26 April 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4846 |
| 22 April 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4607 |
| 17 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4814 |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 779 |
| 22 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 355 shownMuseums hold 355 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wilson between 1914 and 1975: 346 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1929 | Herbert R. Mooney | Woodsfield |
![]() | Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863 | 1968 | L. Macior | [Not Stated] |
| unnamed (fossil) | 1914 | Collector Unknown | Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest) | |
![]() | Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817) | 1921 | Ortmann, Arnold E | Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1922 | Thompson W. H. | Woodsfield |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township |
![]() | Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township |
![]() | Hybopsis micropogon (Cope, 1865) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township |
![]() | Natrix septemvittata (Say, 1825) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio |
![]() | Natrix sipedon sipedon | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Washington Twp.: Little Muskingum River, Monroe Co., Ohio |
All 355 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Beallsville | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Ozark | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Malaga | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Coats | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hope Ridge (historical) | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Miltonsburg | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Bingham | 5.6 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077201. 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.
























