Glass Rock, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Hopewell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43739. It stands on Painter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenford quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1909 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Glenford quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Glenford quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Glenford quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Glenford quadrangle1:24000
In the 1883 county history
3,686 words on this townshipThe county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Hopewell Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Hopewell Township - 3,686 words.
Fires nearby
18 since 2007The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Glass Rock between 2007 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2223 |
| 3 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15123 |
| 10 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15132 |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15486 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10245 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10429 |
| 18 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10228 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 196 shownMuseums hold 196 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glass Rock between 1892 and 1975: 187 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bergstrom, J., Buchanan, J., Buker, W.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle | 1895 | W. A. Kellerman | Reservoir Park |
![]() | Fissidens adianthoides Hedw. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | Fultonham |
![]() | Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh. | 1900 | Williamson, E.B. | New Salem |
![]() | Natrix kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856) | 1902 | Dilto, C. R. | Perry Co., Ohio |
![]() | Puccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw. | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | Buckeye Lake |
![]() | Uromyces (Link) Unger, 1833 | 1902 | W. A. Kellerman | Buckeye Lake |
![]() | Telmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1926 | Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | Honey Creek, Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Potersville: in edge of Co., Perry Co., Ohio |
![]() | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1928 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Buckeye Lake, Perry Co., Ohio |
![]() | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA |
| Chiroptera | 1928 | Trautman, R. | Honey Creek, Perry Co., Ohio, USA | |
![]() | Eremophila alpestris praticola (Henshaw, 1884) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Thornville, Perry, Ohio, USA |
All 196 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Glass Rock: 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Busse Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Busse Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Glass Rock 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.
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 Q122596177 | 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 1061098. 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.






















