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

Four Corners, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44822. The Survey maps it on the Butler quadrangle.

Four Corners 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 Four Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Four Corners, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 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.

In the 1862 county history

309,842 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 Pike Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pike Township - 309,842 words.

Fires nearby

20 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Four Corners between 2004 and 2020, burning about 16 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1104
1 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1094
1 May 2015Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1091
28 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1201
24 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2017Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7966
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3650

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 420 shown

Museums hold 420 specimens collected within 10 miles of Four Corners between 1837 and 1974: 368 Animalia, 30 Fungi, 21 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Andriessen, H. 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 Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) CookeNummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1883Dr. W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Pestalotia De Not., 1841Pestalotia De Not., 18411883W. A. KellermannNo locality on label
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman
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 Delphinium exaltatum, not of this specimenDelphinium exaltatum Aiton1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Hydrastis canadensis, not of this specimenHydrastis canadensis L.1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1879Willard L. Maris
A photograph of the species Lobelia inflata, not of this specimenLobelia inflata L.1881Andriessen, H.near Fredericktown, OH
Specimen of Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.1883W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Phyllosticta verbenae Sacc., 1879Phyllosticta verbenae Sacc., 18791883Prof. Kellerman
Specimen of Ramularia arvensis Sacc.Ramularia arvensis Sacc.1883Kellerman

All 420 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
Pleasant Valley (historical)1.9 miles12
Berger2.0 miles14
Nunda2.2 miles13
North Liberty2.5 miles14
Amity2.5 miles13
College Hill3.5 miles13
Jelloway4.7 miles13
Apple Valley5.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062772. 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.