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

Bunker Hill, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Berlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44654. The Survey maps it on the Berlin quadrangle.

Bunker Hill within Holmes County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bunker Hill, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Bunker Hill, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

5 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Hill between 2005 and 2019, burning about 3 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 burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
18 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 May 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 March 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 October 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15322

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 178 shown

Museums hold 178 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bunker Hill between 1890 and 1974: 140 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, Alleshonse? O. C. 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
Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1896	Wetzstein, A.	Fryburg
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind	1914	B. Fink
Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Collector(s): unknown	Millesburg
Arachnion album Schwein.	1893	A. P. Morgan
Schizophyllum commune Fr.	1901	A. D. Selby	Millersburg
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1906	Alleshouse O. C.	New Bedford
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1906	Alleshonse? O. C.	New Bedford
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1914	Drushel, J.A.

All 178 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bunker Hill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Close Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Close Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Berlin	1.0 miles	16
Millers Corners	1.8 miles	16
Mount Hope	3.5 miles	16
Fryburg	3.6 miles	16
Walnut Creek	3.9 miles	15
Benton	4.0 miles	16
Trail	4.2 miles	15
Charm	4.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048565. 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.