Bee, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45672. It lies in Ponetown Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Byer quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1913 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byer quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
30 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bee (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5348 |
| 9 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1381 |
| 2 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1001 |
| 2 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15596 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,517 shownMuseums hold 1,517 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bee (historical) between 1878 and 1975: 1,452 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans, A. Spreitzer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Calodon | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Little Salt Creek |
![]() | Calvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan | 1936 | Cooke, William Bridge | Little Salt Creek |
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1940 | not recorded | South Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township |
![]() | Houstonia caerulea L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej. | 1878 | None | Hamden |
![]() | Plantago lanceolata L. | 1878 | Guttenberg, G. | Hamden |
![]() | Gentiana andrewsii Griseb. | 1912 | Brown, F.C. | McArthur |
![]() | Robinia hispida L. | 1912 | Crawford, C.G. | southern Ohio |
![]() | Trametes robiniophila Murrill | 1916 | MCCLEDROTLE G. A.? | Coalton |
![]() | Coleosporium viburni Arthur | 1926 | Hedgcock G. G. | Jackson 7 miles Northwest |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Pigeon Creek, within Vinton Co, Vinton County, township n/a |
All 1,517 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ratcliffburg | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Allensville | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Ray | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Richland | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Cox (historical) | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Eagle Mills | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Royal | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Jimtown | 8.0 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062145. 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.
























