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

Blackburn, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43149. The Survey maps it on the Clearport quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Blackburn within Hocking County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blackburn (historical), surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Blackburn (historical), surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

17 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Blackburn (historical) between 2013 and 2020, burning about 34 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 burning10
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1426
5 April 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7765
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15597
24 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15489

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,474 shown

Museums hold 3,474 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blackburn (historical) between 1839 and 1975: 2,234 Animalia, 663 Plantae, 542 Fungi, 15 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 9 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Aecidium galii Pers.Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda
Specimen of Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 18291890Detmers, FredaSugar Grove
Specimen of Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1891M. CraigSugar Grove
Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray1839W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Platanthera leucophaea, not of this specimenPlatanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.1839W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Saxifraga sullivantii, not of this specimenSaxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray1839W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Trillium erectum, not of this specimenTrillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray1839W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Ricciocarpos natans, not of this specimenRicciocarpos natans (L.) Corda1840W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Rudbeckia sullivantii, not of this specimenRudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle1840W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Amblystegium serpens, not of this specimenAmblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.1841not recorded
A photograph of the species Hamatocaulis vernicosus, not of this specimenHamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs1841W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Ceratodon purpureus, not of this specimenCeratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.1842W. S. Sullivant

All 3,474 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Buena Vista1.8 miles13
Mound Crossing2.6 miles13
Rockhouse (historical)3.6 miles15
South Perry3.6 miles15
Gibisonville4.8 miles15
Pine Grove (historical)6.0 miles13
Rockbridge6.7 miles13
Laurelville7.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067394. 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.