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.
Then and now
1910 to 2002The 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 sheets covering this place
15 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
10 since 2009The 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 burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1425 |
| 23 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 March 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15115 |
| 14 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SPICE LICK |
| 12 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11647 |
| 8 December 2016 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 6525 |
| 17 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2504 |
| 13 November 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2502 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 3,050 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bonasa Stephens, 1819 | 1874 | not recorded | Lancaster or Sugar Grove, Hocking, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Stamnaria americana Massee & Morgan | 1894 | W. A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Phyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel | 1901 | W. A. K.; Kern E. H. | New Plymouth |
![]() | Puccinia helianthi Schwein. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | New Plymouth |
| Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1927 | Dawson, W. L. (William Leon) | Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA | |
![]() | Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt. | 1927 | C. E. O'Neal | |
![]() | Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B. (Robert B.) | Old Man's Cave, Benton Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1927 | MB Trautman | Salt Creek |
![]() | Microtus pinetorum (Le Conte, 1830) | 1927 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Goodhope Twp. Neotoma, Hocking Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1928 | Trautman, 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Falls (historical) | 1.5 miles | 15 | |
| Point Pleasant (historical) | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Smock (historical) | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Pursell (historical) | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Blackjack | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| South Bloomingville | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Gibisonville | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Ilesboro | 4.6 miles | 15 |
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.

























