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

Hamley Run, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Dover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45701. It stands on Hamley Run. The Survey maps it on the Nelsonville quadrangle.

Hamley Run within Athens County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hamley Run, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Hamley Run, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

74 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Hamley Run between 1994 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1

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
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BYERS RD
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	RAW FIRE
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	MONK RD FIRE
9 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM
3 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BIG BAILEY
26 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	RV FIRE 295
12 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	MILL CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,245 shown

Museums hold 1,245 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hamley Run between 1896 and 1975: 1,051 Animalia, 136 Plantae, 48 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813	1896	F. L. Stevens	Athens County
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta	1902	Morse, M. (Max)	Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens
Erasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)	1905	not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)	1905	H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura ardens (McAtee, 1920)	1905	H.T. Osborn

All 1,245 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hamley Run: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Plant 2 Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Gravel Plant Number 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kimberly Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Athens 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Glen Ebon	1.2 miles	21
New Floodwood	1.5 miles	21
Beaumont	1.8 miles	21
Chauncey	2.1 miles	21
The Plains	2.8 miles	18
Doanville	2.8 miles	21
Morristown	2.8 miles	19
Kimberly	3.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075989. 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.