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

Blackhawk, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harlan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45152. It stands on Right Fork Second Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Plain quadrangle.

Blackhawk within Warren County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blackhawk, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Blackhawk, surveyed 1914

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,933 shown

Museums hold 2,933 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blackhawk between 1878 and 1974: 2,727 Animalia, 161 Fungi, 28 Plantae, 14 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14529, A. Gaufin, A. J. Mix 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 Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878Collector(s): unknownFoster Point
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521892H. SmithLittle Miami River, 1 1/2 mi. above South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Donnaldsoncythere Rioja, not of this specimenDonnaldsoncythere Rioja, 19421892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Uncinocythere stubbsi, not of this specimenUncinocythere stubbsi Hobbs & Walton, 19661892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Cathartes aura, not of this specimenCathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758)1900Mills, W. C.Fort Ancient, Warren, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anthophora abrupta, not of this specimenAnthophora abrupta Say, 18371902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus citrinus, not of this specimenBombus citrinus (Smith, 1854)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Brachiacantha ursina, not of this specimenBrachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
Coccinella venusta Weise, 18791902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
Ectemnius singularis (F.Smith, 1856)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
Euperilampus triangularis (Say, 1829)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States

All 2,933 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blackhawk: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Morrow Gravel Plant No 1 Mill & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms nearby

9 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Blackhawk in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019FloodBlackhawk$250,000Ohio Route 123 was closed between Ohio Route 132 and U.S. 22/OH-3 due to land slippage at the edge of the road.
March 2012Tornado (EF0)Blackhawk$20,000The tornado touched down and caused damage to a pole barn, where roofing was removed and strewn downstream nearly a quarter of a mile. Some wood from the barn was blown upstream of the tornado path and driven into the roof of the residence where the barn was damaged. The tornado then caused damage mainly to trees, with several trees uprooted or snapped off. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum estimated wind speed of the tornado was 75 miles per hour.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBlackhawk$5,000Multiple trees were downed across Harlan Township.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBlackhawk$3,000A few trees were downed.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBlackhawk$3,000Numerous trees were downed between Butlerville and Morrow.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBlackhawk$1,000One tree was downed southeast of Morrow due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2022HailBlackhawk-no account filed
April 2016HailBlackhawk-no account filed
March 2011HailBlackhawk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Osceola1.6 miles13
Butlerville1.6 miles13
Middleboro2.5 miles13
Edwardsville2.6 miles13
Rossburg2.6 miles13
Hicks2.7 miles13
San Je Village2.7 miles13
Roachester2.8 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BlackhawkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888528The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064444. 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.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.