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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.

Glass Rock within Perry County

Then and now

1909 to 1992

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Glass Rock, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Glass Rock, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1883 county history

3,686 words on this township

The 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 2007

The 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
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
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2223
3 April 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15123
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15132
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15486
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10245
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10429
18 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources10228

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 196 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & SwinglePuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895W. A. KellermanReservoir Park
A photograph of the species Fissidens adianthoides, not of this specimenFissidens adianthoides Hedw.1892W. C. WernerFultonham
A photograph of the species Dicentra cucullaria, not of this specimenDicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.1900Williamson, E.B.New Salem
A photograph of the species Natrix kirtlandii, not of this specimenNatrix kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856)1902Dilto, C. R.Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Puccinia muhlenbergiae, not of this specimenPuccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw.1902W. A. KellermanBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Uromyces Unger, not of this specimenUromyces (Link) Unger, 18331902W. A. KellermanBuckeye Lake
A photograph of the species Telmatodytes palustris, not of this specimenTelmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)1926Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Honey Creek, Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Potersville: in edge of Co., Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake, Perry Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake, Perry, Ohio, USA
Chiroptera1928Trautman, R.Honey Creek, Perry Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Eremophila alpestris, not of this specimenEremophila alpestris praticola (Henshaw, 1884)1928Trautman, 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 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Busse QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Busse Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Glass Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Perry 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
Chalfants0.6 miles11
Glenford1.7 miles12
Yost3.2 miles12
Mount Perry3.7 miles12
Ziontown4.2 miles11
Walser4.3 miles12
Sego4.8 miles12
Somerset4.9 miles11

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 Q122596177The 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.