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

Hatch, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sunfish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45661. It stands on Victory Hill. The Survey maps it on the Latham quadrangle.

Hatch within Pike County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hatch, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hatch, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

65 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Hatch between 2003 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
28 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9187
25 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15228
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15227
27 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1343

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,344 shown

Museums hold 1,344 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hatch between 1894 and 1975: 1,159 Animalia, 120 Fungi, 61 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. Kondratieff, B. W. Evermann, Bales, B. R. 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 Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Spizella pusilla, not of this specimenSpizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Wilsonia citrina, not of this specimenWilsonia citrina (Boddaert, 1783)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedDalyville, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Pike, Ohio, USA

All 1,344 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
Ladd1.5 miles13
Elm Grove2.7 miles15
Bethel2.8 miles15
Arkoe3.9 miles15
Camp4.1 miles12
Tennyson4.2 miles15
Stony Ridge (historical)5.0 miles15
Pleasant Valley5.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062806. 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.