Four Mile, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45640. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1981The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
32 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Four Mile between 2006 and 2019, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 June 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 May 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15197 |
| 17 April 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 906 shownMuseums hold 906 specimens collected within 10 miles of Four Mile between 1899 and 1975: 389 Animalia, 349 Plantae, 162 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans, A.J. Sharp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Metzgeria furcata (L.) Corda | 1925 | Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1925 | G. T. Jones | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Polyporus semipileatus Peck | 1928 | Walter Phillips | Mill Hollow, Vermillion River |
![]() | Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758 | 1899 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Rorippa Scop. | 1905 | F. Bartley | 3 mi south of Jackson |
![]() | Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm. | 1915 | Hedgcock G. G. | Jackson |
![]() | Trametes robiniophila Murrill | 1916 | MCCLEDROTLE G. A.? | Coalton |
![]() | Eriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889) | 1923 | Miller, A. E. (August E.) | Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A. |
| unnamed | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch | |
![]() | Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
![]() | Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | White's Gulch |
All 906 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Four Mile: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Refractories/ Jackson, Ohio | Chromium | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keystone | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Camba | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Jackson Heights | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Banner | 3.9 miles | 10 | |
| Grahamsville | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Jackson | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Rocky Hill | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Clay | 5.2 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071610. 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.




















