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

Arkoe, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sunfish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45661. It lies in Goat Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Latham quadrangle.

Arkoe within Pike County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arkoe, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Arkoe, surveyed 1915

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

45 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Arkoe between 2003 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning18
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15227
30 August 2007Natural1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1343
6 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1342
6 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15624

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,083 shown

Museums hold 1,083 specimens collected within 10 miles of Arkoe between 1896 and 1975: 879 Animalia, 137 Fungi, 62 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Ceriporia spissa (Schwein. ex Fr.) Rajchenb.Ceriporia spissa (Schwein. ex Fr.) Rajchenb.1937Cooke, William BridgeRock Run
Specimen of Coprinellus micaceus (Bull.) Vilgalys, Hopple & Jacq.JohnsonCoprinellus micaceus (Bull.) Vilgalys, Hopple & Jacq.Johnson1937Cooke, William BridgeRock Run
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Spizella pusilla, not of this specimenSpizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Wilsonia citrina, not of this specimenWilsonia citrina (Boddaert, 1783)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedDalyville, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Fulica americana, not of this specimenFulica americana americana Gmelin, 17891899not recordedScioto River, Pike, Ohio, USA
Icteria Vieillot, 18081899not recordedDalyville, Pike, Ohio, USA

All 1,083 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Arkoe: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rogers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Rogers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Elm Grove3.6 miles15
Latham3.8 miles15
Poplar Grove3.8 miles17
Hatch3.9 miles15
Kincaid Springs4.3 miles17
Byington4.6 miles17
Ladd4.8 miles13
Cedar Fork5.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062633. 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.