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

Good Hope, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Guyan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45678. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Athalia quadrangle.

Good Hope within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Good Hope, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Good Hope, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Fires nearby

48 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Good Hope between 1997 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2020Other causesunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15824
11 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryHOEFT MARSH
7 May 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryOHIO RIVER
6 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4206
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7930
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11985
3 April 2020Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWayne National Forest195

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 137 shown

Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Good Hope between 1904 and 1975: 115 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., C.J. Drake, Cavanah, et al. 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 Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1939D. MootsSharps Creek At Aid, Aid Township
A photograph of the species Alternaria cucumerina, not of this specimenAlternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) J.A.Elliott1904Sheldon J. L.Mercers Bottom
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Mercers Bottom
A photograph of the species Macrosporium cucumerinum, not of this specimenMacrosporium cucumerinum Ellis & Everh.1904Sheldon John L.Mercers Bottom
A photograph of the species Eratoneura osborni, not of this specimenEratoneura osborni (DeLong, 1916)1915Drake
A photograph of the species Erythroneura tricincta, not of this specimenErythroneura tricincta Fitch, 18511915Drake
A photograph of the species Gargaphia solani, not of this specimenGargaphia solani Heidemann, 19141915C.J. Drake
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631932not recordedGood Hope Twp.
Melospiza georgiana georgiana (Latham, 1790)1936Collector(s): W. PerrygoMercers Bottom
A photograph of the species Melospiza melodia, not of this specimenMelospiza melodia melodia (A.Wilson, 1810)1936Collector(s): W. PerrygoAshton

All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Crown City1.9 miles16
Mercerville4.6 miles14
Ruby (historical)5.2 miles14
Halley (historical)5.6 miles15
Leaper5.9 miles14
Swan Creek6.0 miles14
Clemma (historical)6.3 miles15
Moody (historical)7.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1806787. 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.