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

Fourmile House Corner, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sandusky Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43420. It stands on Ruhl Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Fremont West quadrangle.

Fourmile House Corner within Sandusky County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fourmile House Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fourmile House Corner, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Sandusky township, in the words of 1917.

1917, Sandusky Township

Commemorative Bioorapiiical Record

son, was born in Pennsylvania in 1789. Her mother was a Miss Bo3'd, member of a family who settled in an early day among the Indians at Carlisle, Penn. During the French and Indian wars the entire family was captured save the father, who at the time was absent from home. In a neighboring schoolhouse the teacher and all the pupils were massacred.

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Fires nearby

7 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fourmile House Corner between 2002 and 2002, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
21 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 July 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 February 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 January 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,113 shown

Museums hold 1,113 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fourmile House Corner between 1825 and 1975: 1,080 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R., Albertin 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1880Keeler, L.E.Fremont.
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1893United States Fish CommissionPortage River, at Oak Harbor
Specimen of Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.1896DayFremont
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Larus argentatus, not of this specimenLarus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 18621881not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Carex frankii, not of this specimenCarex frankii Kunth1889H. C. BeardsleeGreen Spring.
Carex haleana Olney1890H. C. Beardslee Jr.Green Spring
A photograph of the species Carex hyalinolepis, not of this specimenCarex hyalinolepis Steud.1890Collector unknownGreen Spring.
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry S. DayFremont
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1891Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Sandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Neotibicen canicularis, not of this specimenNeotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841)1891not recordedFremont

All 1,113 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fourmile House Corner: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gottron Brothers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Gottron Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sandusky 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
Stony Prairie1.9 miles13
Young's Colonial Acres2.3 miles13
Golden Gate Estates2.5 miles13
Fremont3.3 miles13
Gabels Corner3.3 miles13
Kingsway3.8 miles12
Booktown3.8 miles13
Ballville3.9 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122564164The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048754. 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.