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.
Then and now
1910 to 1992The 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 1910 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1910 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
18 since 2007The 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 burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5348 |
| 2 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15596 |
| 18 April 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1025 |
| 18 April 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1084 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 546 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1940 | not recorded | South Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township |
![]() | Robinia hispida L. | 1912 | Crawford, C.G. | southern Ohio |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Pigeon Creek, within Vinton Co, Vinton County, township n/a |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 1854 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | near Eagle Mills, Vinton Co., Ohio |
![]() | Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1930 | Trautman, 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Mills | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Jimtown | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Ratcliffburg | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Bee (historical) | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Ray | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Allensville | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Goosetown (historical) | 8.7 miles | 16 | |
| Royal | 8.9 miles | 16 |
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.

























