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

Cedar Grove, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43138. It lies in Hadden Hollow. The Survey maps it on the South Bloomingville quadrangle.

Cedar Grove within Hocking County

Then and now

1910 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cedar Grove, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Cedar Grove, surveyed 1910

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

10 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove between 2009 and 2020, burning about 13 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
3 May 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1425
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15115
14 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestSPICE LICK
12 March 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11647
8 December 2016Other causes2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6525
17 November 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2504
13 November 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2502

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,050 shown

Museums hold 3,050 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cedar Grove between 1874 and 1975: 2,086 Animalia, 524 Plantae, 389 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 Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township

All 3,050 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
Cedar Falls (historical)1.5 miles15
Point Pleasant (historical)1.6 miles15
Smock (historical)3.1 miles15
Pursell (historical)3.2 miles15
Blackjack3.3 miles15
South Bloomingville3.4 miles15
Gibisonville4.5 miles15
Ilesboro4.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075543. 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.