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Clover Hill, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43716. It stands on Clover Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Cameron quadrangle.

Clover Hill within Belmont County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Clover Hill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Clover Hill, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

In the 1903 county history

3,013 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the first settlements, deprivations of, the pioneers, the first settlers, the population, the industries, the mineral resources.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 3,013 words.

Fires nearby

15 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Clover Hill between 2010 and 2020, burning about 120 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1
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
11 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12565
9 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4187
30 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources621
27 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4188
23 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 153 shown

Museums hold 153 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clover Hill between 1905 and 1975: 146 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bertholomew, E.A., DAVID M SEVER, DAVID M. SEVER 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 malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.1905J.L. SheldonNear Round Bottom
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1905Sheldon John L.Round Bottom
A photograph of the species Phyciodes tharos, not of this specimenPhyciodes tharos Drury, 17731925not recorded
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB TrautmanCaptina Creek, eastern Washington Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Captina Creek, within Ex southeast York township, near Powhatan Point, York township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929MB TrautmanCaptina Creek, eastern Washington Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Captina Creek, within Ex southeast York township, near Powhatan Point, York township
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanCaptina Creek, southeastern York Twp
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanCaptina Creek, eastern Washington Twp.
A photograph of the species Nocomis micropogon, not of this specimenNocomis micropogon (Cope, 1865)1929MB TrautmanCaptina Creek, eastern Washington Twp.
A photograph of the species Notropis Rafinesque, not of this specimenNotropis Rafinesque, 18181929MB TrautmanCaptina Creek, southeastern York Twp
Notropis buchanani Meek, 18961929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Captina Creek, within Ex southeast York township, near Powhatan Point, York township

All 153 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clover Hill: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Bituminous. 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
Captina Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Point QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer
Captina Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Belmont 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
Armstrongs Mills2.6 miles12
Alledonia3.0 miles12
Captina3.1 miles15
Dorsey (historical)3.3 miles12
Hogsink4.3 miles12
Steinersville4.9 miles15
Becket (historical)5.3 miles12
Businessburg5.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1080491. 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.