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

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.

College Hill within Knox County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of College Hill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of College Hill, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1862 county history

6,496 words on this township

The 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 2014

The 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism3

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
24 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2017Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7966
21 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15442
2 December 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15364
4 November 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 November 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15335
15 November 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2402

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 186 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1837MüllerOhio
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1863Turati (comte), Ercole
A photograph of the species Lampetra aepyptera, not of this specimenLampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)1890Parker, J. B.Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1897W. A. KellermanBrinkhaven.
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501898Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll), Williamson, E. B. & Parker, J. B.Big Jelloway Creek, Big Jelloway Creek, Knox County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Sedum ternatum, not of this specimenSedum ternatum Michx.1901Wetzstein,A. s.n. [1901-05] W. Becker Violae exsiccatae 107Flora America boreal.: Ohio, St. Marys ad viam pubblicam "Wakaponeta" in silva frondosa humida
A photograph of the species Papilio glaucus, not of this specimenPapilio glaucus Linnaeus, 17581925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1927McNelly, W. C.Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Nunda1.5 miles13
Jelloway1.9 miles13
Berger2.3 miles14
Four Corners3.5 miles14
Pleasant Valley (historical)3.8 miles12
North Liberty3.9 miles14
Amity5.5 miles13
Apple Valley7.3 miles12

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.