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

Hackney, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45715. It stands on Scott Run. The Survey maps it on the Reinersville quadrangle.

Hackney within Morgan County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

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 Hackney, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hackney, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

10 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hackney between 2013 and 2019, burning about 27 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5588
23 September 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5587
20 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources626
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources702

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 568 shown

Museums hold 568 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hackney between 1887 and 1974: 471 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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 Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1962D. StansberyMuskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Crystallaria cincotta, not of this specimenCrystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 20081888Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.)Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Pimephales vigilax, not of this specimenPimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1903not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1904not recordedMeigs Creek
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus Schwein.1906Collector unspecifiedMcConnellsville
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1910W. T. Mitchell & SonBeverly

All 568 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hackney: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Ohio Power PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms nearby

1 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Hackney in 1 storm report between 2008 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHackney-Trees were blown down across roads.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Unionville2.5 miles14
Center Bend2.7 miles14
Centerville2.9 miles13
Mill Grove2.9 miles14
Moscow Mills3.4 miles14
Otho (historical)3.5 miles14
Reinersville3.8 miles14
Bristol5.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070766. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.