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

Halls Valley, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43758. It stands on Kickapoo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rokeby Lock quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Halls Valley within Morgan County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Halls Valley (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Halls Valley (historical), surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1880 county history

474 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Deerfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Deerfield Township - 474 words.

Fires nearby

15 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Halls Valley (historical) between 2013 and 2018, burning about 44 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4729
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13507
1 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources711
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 325 shown

Museums hold 325 specimens collected within 10 miles of Halls Valley (historical) between 1887 and 1973: 291 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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 Cercis canadensis L.Cercis canadensis L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
Specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos L.Gleditsia triacanthos L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
Leskea obscura Hedw.1896W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1903not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Merulius incarnatus, not of this specimenMerulius incarnatus Schwein.1906Collector unspecifiedMcConnellsville
A photograph of the species Merulius corium, not of this specimenMerulius corium (Pers.) Fr.1908Coker W. C.Chapel Hill
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1911B.R. BalesRinggold
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.MCCONNELSVILLE
A photograph of the species Ambystoma Tschudi, not of this specimenAmbystoma Tschudi, 18381927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio
Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)1927F. N.McConnelsville

All 325 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Halls Valley (historical): 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Joe Lucas DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
O. V. Crane No. 1 & OhioSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Joetown0.8 miles13
Morganville2.3 miles13
Triadelphia2.7 miles13
Chaneyville (historical)3.2 miles13
Malta4.3 miles13
McConnelsville4.8 miles13
Rokeby Lock5.0 miles13
Eagleport5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067291. 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.