Yankeeburg, Ohio
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Newport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45750. It stands on Tadpole Run. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
19 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.
- 1904 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1924 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1976 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Newport township, in the words of 1902.
The Drowning Of Charles Haskell
The drowning of Charles Haskell is perhaps the most remarkable and the saddest case of this kind on record. Charles Haskell was, at the time of his tragic death, a respected citizen and a prominent member of the Baptist church. He resided near the river where he had his store. Saturday, July 23, 1831, he observed that some boats that he had secured to the Ohio shore were being blown by the wind towards the Virginia side.
In the 1902 county history
23,474 words on this townshipThe county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Newport Township covers scenery, blennerhassett's visit to mt. dudley, fruit-raising, newell's run uplift, coal banks, deserted derricks.
Read the chapter on Newport Township - 23,474 words.
Fires nearby
24 since 1992The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Yankeeburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. 3 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 | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | POLECAT HOLLOW |
| 30 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - CYTEC |
| 30 August 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | West Virginia Division of Forestry | SOUTH PLEASANTS HIGHWAY - MON POWER |
| 10 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SEVEN |
| 30 May 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | MCELROY RUN |
| 13 April 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14565 |
| 12 April 2018 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | COOPER RIDGE/EMERSON AVENUE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,092 shownMuseums hold 1,092 specimens collected within 10 miles of Yankeeburg between 1853 and 1975: 998 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 37 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Drew, A. L. McElhose, AGOSTINI, CHARLES T 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr. | 1923 | W.G. Stoner | Marietta |
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1932 | C. May | Marietta |
![]() | Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers. | 1932 | L.W.R.J. | Nursery, Marietta |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1853 | E. Andrews | Marietta, Ohio |
![]() | Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900) | 1879 | W. Holden | Ohio River, Near Marietta |
![]() | Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1886 | Georg Baur | Marietta |
![]() | Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Shufeldt, R. | Marietta |
![]() | Progne subis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1893 | Shufeldt, R. | Marietta |
![]() | Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | Marietta |
![]() | Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852) | 1897 | Sterki, Victor | Marietta |
![]() | Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1897 | Sterki, Victor | Marietta |
![]() | Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1897 | Sterki, Victor | Marietta |
All 1,092 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yankeeburg: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duckworth Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms nearby
1 since 2018The National Weather Service names Yankeeburg in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Flood | Yankeeburg | $1,000 | The river gage on the Ohio River at Willow Island Lock indicated the river rose above its 37 foot flood stage mid afternoon on the 11th. The river crested in minor flood, around 37.2 feet that evening and returned below flood stage shortly after midnight. This flooded sections of Ohio State Route 7, along with Township Roads 19 and 443. |
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 Newport | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Cornerville | 2.0 miles | 19 | |
| Dell | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Sandhill | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Reno | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Hills | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Newell Run | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Sitka | 4.7 miles | 19 |
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 Yankeeburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133384 | 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 1084089. 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.
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.






























