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

Cox, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Eagle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45647. It lies in Brown Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ratcliffburg quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cox within Vinton County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

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 Cox (historical), surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Cox (historical), surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

18 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Cox (historical) between 2007 and 2020, burning about 123 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5348
2 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15596
18 April 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1025
18 April 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1084

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 546 shown

Museums hold 546 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cox (historical) between 1912 and 1975: 522 Animalia, 24 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer et al., Blythe, D. (David) & Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) 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 Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1940not recordedSouth Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township
A photograph of the species Robinia hispida, not of this specimenRobinia hispida L.1912Crawford, C.G.southern Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pigeon Creek, within Vinton Co, Vinton County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near Eagle Mills, Vinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Middle Fork Pigeon Creek, within central Harrison township, near Eagle Mills, Harrison township

All 546 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
Eagle Mills3.3 miles14
Jimtown3.8 miles14
Ratcliffburg4.0 miles14
Bee (historical)5.6 miles13
Ray7.3 miles13
Allensville7.3 miles16
Goosetown (historical)8.7 miles16
Royal8.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1051910. 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.