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

Buck Run, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45679. It stands on Little West Fork Ohio Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seaman quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Buck Run within Adams County

Then and now

1918 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buck Run (historical), surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Buck Run (historical), surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

26,131 words on this township

Abstracts Form Original Adams County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records 2 D, published 1829 names this settlement in its chapter on Scott Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

October Term, 1821. Zadock Markland made oath that more than a month ago he served on Joseph Westbrook Justice of Peace of Adams County a writ which bore date within 15 days of a judgement by Westbrook issued by him in favor of Moses Scott against John Russell. Joseph Dalinton, Clerk

Passage source: Abstracts Form Original Adams County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records 2 D, published 1829.

31 March 1829. Receipt from John Thompson, Adm of estate of John Roush, for $2.36 tax for year i828 on 100 acres of land, original quantity 200 acres on the East Fork of Eagle Creek.Original proprietor William Leedom. David Bradford, Treasurer.

Passage source: Abstracts Form Original Adams County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records 2 D, published 1829.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Scott Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Buck Run (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
13 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13965
9 April 2008	Natural	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15625
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2013	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 158 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Buck Run (historical) between 1900 and 1975: 96 Animalia, 38 Fungi, 22 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. J. Sharp, Braun, E. Lucy, Bruce Fink 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W.A. Kellerman
Collema fragrans (Sm.) Ach.	1913	Bruce Fink
Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner	1913	Bruce Fink	Serpent Mound
Agave virginica L.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Turkey Creek
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	5 miles south of Peebles
Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)	1927	not recorded	Ohio River
Culicoides Latreille, 1809	1927	not recorded	Ohio River
Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911	1927	not recorded	Ohio River
Micropterus dolomieu dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ohio Brush Creek, Meigs township, ~3 mi N of Dunkinsville, Meigs township
Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ohio Brush Creek, within Meigs township, near Dunkinsville, Meigs township
Notropis buchanani Meek, 1896	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ohio Brush Creek, within Meigs township, near Dunkinsville, Meigs township
Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ohio Brush Creek, near Jacksonville, ~3.8 mi N of Dunkinsville, Meigs township

All 158 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mount Leigh (historical)	2.1 miles	11
Mount Zion (historical)	2.8 miles	11
Tranquility	2.9 miles	11
Seaman	3.0 miles	11
Irvington (historical)	3.4 miles	11
Jessup	3.7 miles	14
May Hill	4.2 miles	14
Emerald	4.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055820. 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.