College Hill, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44822. The Survey maps it on the Jelloway quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1912 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1912 USGS Perrysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Perrysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Perrysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jelloway quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jelloway quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Jelloway quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
In the 1862 county history
6,496 words on this townshipThe county history of 1862 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Brown Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Brown Township - 6,496 words.
Fires nearby
9 since 2014The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of College Hill between 2014 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7966 |
| 21 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15442 |
| 2 December 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15364 |
| 4 November 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 November 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15335 |
| 15 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2402 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 186 shownMuseums hold 186 specimens collected within 10 miles of College Hill between 1837 and 1974: 177 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, Condit, J. M. (John M.), Crunkilton, R. (Ron) & Crunkilton, L. (Lila) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul. | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1837 | Müller | Ohio |
![]() | Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1863 | Turati (comte), Ercole | |
![]() | Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860) | 1890 | Parker, J. B. | Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate |
![]() | Puccinia eatoniae Arthur | 1897 | W. A. Kellerman | Brinkhaven. |
![]() | Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850 | 1898 | Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll), Williamson, E. B. & Parker, J. B. | Big Jelloway Creek, Big Jelloway Creek, Knox County, township n/a |
![]() | Sedum ternatum Michx. | 1901 | Wetzstein,A. s.n. [1901-05] W. Becker Violae exsiccatae 107 | Flora America boreal.: Ohio, St. Marys ad viam pubblicam "Wakaponeta" in silva frondosa humida |
![]() | Papilio glaucus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1925 | Pallister, J. C. (John C.) | Ohio |
![]() | Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855) | 1927 | McNelly, W. C. | Ohio |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township |
![]() | Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township |
All 186 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nunda | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Jelloway | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Berger | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Four Corners | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Pleasant Valley (historical) | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| North Liberty | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Amity | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Apple Valley | 7.3 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062705. 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.
























