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.
Then and now
1901 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1901 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fremont West quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Fremont West quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Sandusky township, in the words of 1917.
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.
Fires nearby
7 since 2002The 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 January 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,113 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Adiantum pedatum L. | 1880 | Keeler, L.E. | Fremont. |
![]() | Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830) | 1893 | United States Fish Commission | Portage River, at Oak Harbor |
![]() | Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc. | 1896 | Day | Fremont |
![]() | Hygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn. | 1825 | T. Drummond | Banks of the Portage River |
![]() | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 | 1881 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Carex frankii Kunth | 1889 | H. C. Beardslee | Green Spring. |
| Carex haleana Olney | 1890 | H. C. Beardslee Jr. | Green Spring | |
![]() | Carex hyalinolepis Steud. | 1890 | Collector unknown | Green Spring. |
![]() | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry S. Day | Fremont |
![]() | Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764) | 1891 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Neotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841) | 1891 | not recorded | Fremont |
All 1,113 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gottron Brothers Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Gottron Brothers Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Prairie | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Young's Colonial Acres | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Golden Gate Estates | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Fremont | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Gabels Corner | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Kingsway | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Booktown | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ballville | 3.9 miles | 13 |
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 Q122564164 | The 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.























