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

Hawks, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Wilkesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Rockcamp Run. The Survey maps it on the Mulga quadrangle.

Hawks within Vinton County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hawks, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Hawks, surveyed 1905

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.

Fires nearby

18 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Hawks between 2007 and 2019, burning about 53 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5086
1 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15109
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15121
22 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 224 shown

Museums hold 224 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hawks between 1878 and 1975: 181 Animalia, 41 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, W., C. F. Reed 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
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 224 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 Hawks: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hamden Pit Number 2ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vinton 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
Clarion1.4 miles13
Radcliff2.1 miles13
Minerton3.2 miles13
Oreton3.9 miles13
Wilkesville4.1 miles12
Arbaugh5.0 miles12
Vales Mills6.0 miles12
Puritan6.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064814. 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.