Skip to main content

Landslide at the Monticello Village Appartments, Athens County, Ohio, 1972

Dates

Dataset Reference Date
2016-03-30
Info Date
1972

Summary

Looking down the slump at the damage to trees caused by the Monticello Village Apartments landslip in Athens, Athens County, Ohio. The Monticello Village Apartments was a complex of fourteen to sixteen buildings when construction was finished in 1968. The level area on which the apartment buildings were constructed was fashioned from a cut on the hillside in the Clarksburg red bed. The mudstone removed in this cut was used as fill on the edge of the hill in order to expand the level area for apartment construction. On November 4, 1972, the slope failed, causing the destruction of a 150 meter section of Hastings Road in the location of Ohio State Route 32. On November 7, 1972, four buildings were evacuated after additional rapid movement [...]

Attached Files

Material Request Instructions

For more information, please contact Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey, Address: 2045 Morse Rd., Columbus, OH 43229. Phone: 614-265-6576, E-mail: geo.survey@dnr.state.oh.us, Web: www.ohiogeology.com.

Map

Communities

  • ReSciColl Archive

Tags

Provenance

Data source
File Processing
File Process
Type
NGGDPP
Reference Item
Collection of Photographic Slides and Historic Photos from Ohio
Reference File
Ohio_NGGDPP_metadatafields_final.csv

Additional Information

Alternate Titles

  • S11.16.028.tif

Identifiers

Type Scheme Key
title Parent-57f2863ae4b0bc0bebfff9b8 Landslide at the Monticello Village Appartments, Athens County, Ohio, 1972

NGGDPP Item Extension

alternateGeometryAthens County (Ohio), Athens (Ohio), Athens 7.5-minute Quadrangle

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...