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Buckeye City, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43014. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle.

Buckeye City within Knox County

Then and now

1912 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buckeye City, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Buckeye City, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

10,681 words on this township

History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The following members of the lodge have deceased since its organization: 1857, Dr. John White, April 20th; 1862, Wait Whitney, October 12th; 1864, Ebenezer Wilson, April 26th; 1866, Daniel Hess, April 20th; 1869, Solomon W. Sapp, March I St; 1870, William Magers, December i8th; 1871, Mark Greer, April 29th; 1872, Thomas S. Barber, August 29th, John M. Church, November 23d; 1873, Solomon H. Porter, May 27th, Samuel Kinsey, August 31st, Dr. Isaac Putnam, October 7 th; 1876, Alonzo Gardner, March 29th, William Porter, October 2d; 1879, John Spurgeon, October ist - total deaths, fifteen.

Passage source: History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

Millwood is situated in the southeastern part of the township. Owl creek flows along its north'border. It was so named in consequence of the first mill in the locality being built in the woods, although it is claimed by some of the citizens to have been named in honor of a Mr. Millwood, of Virginia, a friend of the founder of the town. It is a neat and ordinary village of about two hundred inhabitants. At one time it was the most flourishing village in Union, and a large amount of business was transacted in the place; but since the location of the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Columbus railroad at Howard and Rossville, the tide of business has ceased to flow here and has been diverted to those villages. The town was laid out about 1825, by John Hann. James Britton built the first log house, and Israel Houseworth the second one. Ross Arbuckle built the first frame dwelling. The first gristmill was built about 1825, by John Hann and Eli- sha Gibbs. The present grist-mill, the second one in the town, was erected by John Hann. The first school-house, a small log building, was built on Jacob Hammond's farm about 1829, and William Critchfield taught the first school in this house.

Passage source: History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

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 Union Township.

Fires near this place

58 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Buckeye City between 2004 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15805
14 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15810
5 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8446
11 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8508
8 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15191
8 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1206
5 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1202
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1104

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 257 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 257 specimens collected within 10 miles of Buckeye City between 1890 and 1974: 224 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 13 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson, Collector unknown 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 Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.1896F. L. StevensHayden Falls
Specimen of Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Lampetra aepyptera, not of this specimenLampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)1890Parker, J. B.Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
A photograph of the species Aesculus hippocastanum, not of this specimenAesculus hippocastanum L.1892Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Cornus florida, not of this specimenCornus florida L.1892Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Cypripedium parviflorum, not of this specimenCypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak1892M. C. FergusonGambier
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1892M. WarnerGambier
A photograph of the species Oxalis violacea, not of this specimenOxalis violacea L.1892Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Polytrichum commune, not of this specimenPolytrichum commune Hedw.1892not recordedGambier
Rumex acetosella L.1892Collector unspecified
Rumex obtusifolius L.1892M. C. Ferguson
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1897W. A. KellermanBrinkhaven.

All 257 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Buckeye City: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Briar Hill Brinkhaven PitFlagstoneProducer
Brinkhaven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Brinkhaven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Number 6 QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Knox County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Millwood Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Millwood Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Knox 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
Danville0.3 miles12
Oak Hill2.3 miles12
Millwood3.2 miles12
Brinkhaven3.8 miles12
Hollisters (historical)4.2 miles12
Howard4.4 miles12
Zuck4.7 miles12
Umbria (historical)4.7 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122566923The 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 1065556. 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.

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.