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

Coonville, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Starr Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45654. The Survey maps it on the Union Furnace quadrangle.

Coonville within Hocking County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coonville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Coonville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Fires nearby

38 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Coonville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony5
Other causes5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 August 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresWayne National ForestLAUREL FIRE
8 July 2007Recreation and ceremony11 acresWayne National ForestTICK RIDGE FIRE
12 July 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestTODD FIRE
7 June 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBEACH FIRE
5 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestUNION FURNACE
18 June 2007Natural3.0 acresWayne National ForestGORE FIRE
9 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution14 acresWayne National ForestFRIDAY NIGHT
9 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1243

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 502 shown

Museums hold 502 specimens collected within 10 miles of Coonville between 1901 and 1975: 397 Animalia, 50 Fungi, 39 Plantae, 15 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Bragg, Bailey, J. R. (Joseph R.) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Brodo, Irwin M. 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
A photograph of the species Phyllachora junci, not of this specimenPhyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel1901W. A. K.; Kern E. H.New Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia helianthi, not of this specimenPuccinia helianthi Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia podophylli, not of this specimenPuccinia podophylli Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
Paracapnia angulata Hanson, 19611928D. J. Knull
Collema subfurvum1929Fulford, Margaret HannahCedar Falls Gorge
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Leptogium cyanescens, not of this specimenLeptogium cyanescens (Ach.) Körb.1929Taylor, C.S.Cedar Falls Gorge,
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
Diploperla robusta Stark & Gaufin, 19741930J. N. Knull
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361947D LADDCEDAR FALLS
Heterodon platirhinos Latreille, 18011947C CROFTCEDAR FALLS

All 502 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal. 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
Nutter Bros PitClay, CoalProducer

Every working recorded in Hocking 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
Starr1.2 miles16
Summit (historical)2.3 miles16
Union Furnace4.5 miles16
Haydenville5.8 miles16
Ilesboro6.5 miles15
Ewing7.1 miles15
Candy Town8.0 miles21
Smock (historical)8.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075625. 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.