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

Blackjack, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43138. It stands on Harble Ridge. The Survey maps it on the New Plymouth quadrangle.

Blackjack within Hocking County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blackjack, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Blackjack, surveyed 1904

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

6 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Blackjack between 2009 and 2020, burning about 26 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 burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2009Debris and open burning17 acresWayne National ForestKLINGER FIRE
24 February 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15427
8 December 2016Other causes2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6525
19 November 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15968
20 October 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2163

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,285 shown

Museums hold 3,285 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blackjack between 1874 and 1975: 2,308 Animalia, 529 Plantae, 397 Fungi, 35 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Bonasa Stephens, not of this specimenBonasa Stephens, 18191874not recordedLancaster or Sugar Grove, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Stamnaria americana, not of this specimenStamnaria americana Massee & Morgan1894W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Phyllachora junci, not of this specimenPhyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel1901W. A. K.; Kern E. H.New Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia helianthi, not of this specimenPuccinia helianthi Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1927Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bryoxiphium norvegicum, not of this specimenBryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.1927C. E. O'Neal
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B. (Robert B.)Old Man's Cave, Benton Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401927MB TrautmanSalt Creek
A photograph of the species Microtus pinetorum, not of this specimenMicrotus pinetorum (Le Conte, 1830)1927Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Goodhope Twp. Neotoma, Hocking Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Clear Creek, Good Hope Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Clear Creek, Good Hope Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio

All 3,285 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
Point Pleasant (historical)2.3 miles15
Ilesboro3.1 miles15
Ewing3.1 miles15
Cedar Grove3.3 miles15
Cedar Falls (historical)3.7 miles15
Smock (historical)4.1 miles15
Gibisonville4.5 miles15
West Logan5.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075395. 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.