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Cedar Hill, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Amanda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43102. It stands on Cherry Run. The Survey maps it on the East Ringgold quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1914 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1914 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Circleville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS East Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
15,419 words on this townshipA Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Amanda Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
On the 6th day of September, 1817, Elders Eli Ashbrook and .Jacob Tharp organized the Turkey Run Regular Baptist Church. This church is still in existence. They held their meetings in Hooker's school-house as late as 1838, about which time a house of worship was erected. None of the original members are now living, and but one now lives who became a member by letter a year or two afterward, viz. : Permelia Ashbrook, now 83 years old. Elder Eli Ashbrook, one of the
Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
4 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Hill between 2019 and 2019, burning about 10 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15354 |
| 25 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15340 |
| 20 July 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15342 |
| 15 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15349 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 938 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 938 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cedar Hill between 1876 and 1975: 769 Animalia, 137 Fungi, 31 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C H KENNEDY, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.) & Class 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur | 1891 | Freda Detmers | Rock Mill |
 | Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1892 | W.A. Kellerman | |
 | Catocala marmorata Edwards, 1864 | 1876 | not recorded | Southern Ohio |
 | Bartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr | 1880 | W. Kellerman | |
| Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1882 | W. Kellerman | ||
 | Anomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Auricularia auricula (L.) Underw. | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Bisporella pallescens (Pers.) S.E.Carp. & Korf | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | Amanda. |
 | Dicranum scoparium Hedw. | 1882 | W. Kellerman | Amanda |
 | Entodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal. | 1882 | W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Aecidium Pers. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman |
All 938 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royalton | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| New Strasburg | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Amanda | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Wyandotte (historical) | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Slate Ridge Estates | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Fairfield Farms | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Wesley Chapel | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cedar Creek | 5.8 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Cedar Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5056744 | The 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 1056776. 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.