Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Apple, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43135. It lies in Carney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Laurelville quadrangle.

Apple within Hocking County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Apple, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Apple, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 sheets

Matched 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.

Fires nearby

8 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Apple between 2010 and 2018, burning about 7 acres in total. None 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	2

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
3 May 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1425
13 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1024
9 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4088
31 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4089
12 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13265
8 October 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5946
7 October 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,481 shown

Museums hold 1,481 specimens collected within 10 miles of Apple between 1911 and 1975: 890 Animalia, 295 Fungi, 275 Plantae, 11 Bacteria, 5 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A VERWYST, A. L. Welden 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	Bales, B. R.	1 mi W of South Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
Eratoneura hartii (Gillette, 1898)	1915	Dwight Moore DeLong
unnamed	1918	Bruce Fink	in a wood near Old Man's Cave [Hocking State Park], Hocking county, Ohio
Buellia curtisii (Tuck.) Imshaug	1918	Fink, B.	Old Mans Cave
Peltigera polydactylon (Neck.) Hoffm.	1918	Bruce Fink	Near Old Man's Cave.
Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray	1920	Braun, E. Lucy	Old Man's Cave
Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1920	s.c.	Old Man's Cave
Cladonia P.Browne, 1756	1920	Braun, E. Lucy	Old Man's Cave
Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B. (Robert B.)	Old Man's Cave, Benton Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1927	MB Trautman	Salt Creek
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township

All 1,481 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Haynes	2.7 miles	15
Nancy (historical)	2.7 miles	15
Reeds (historical)	3.4 miles	15
Laurelville	5.2 miles	15
South Bloomingville	5.8 miles	15
Pursell (historical)	6.3 miles	15
South Perry	6.8 miles	15
Rockhouse (historical)	8.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062631. 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.