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Hares Court, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43976. The Survey maps it on the Cadiz quadrangle.

Hares Court within Harrison County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

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 Hares Court, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hares Court, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed 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 near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hares Court between 2003 and 2018, burning about 60 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
20 April 2005Debris and open burning31 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12910
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12908
29 March 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources586
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 February 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3610

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 35 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hares Court between 1889 and 1971: 26 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Fink, B., H. Waters 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 Ulmus americana L.Ulmus americana L.1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Specimen of Uncinula macrospora PeckUncinula macrospora Peck1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
A photograph of the species Oxalis stricta, not of this specimenOxalis stricta L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
Syrphidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Monroe Twp.: Little Stillwater Creek, Harrison Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1930Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Washington Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Washington Twp.: Laurel Dr., Harrison Co., Ohio
Arthropoda1934H. WatersHopedale, Plot 128

All 35 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
Hopedale0.3 miles17
Parlatt (historical)1.7 miles17
Cherry Valley2.1 miles17
Rexford2.2 miles17
Pittsburgh Junction2.4 miles17
East Cadiz2.6 miles17
Carman2.7 miles17
Cadiz Junction2.8 miles17

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 Q122550484The 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 2634703. 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.