Hemlock Grove, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bedford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. It stands on Big Run. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.
Then and now
1907 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
37 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hemlock Grove between 2009 and 2020, burning about 46 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 burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15268 |
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15260 |
| 9 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1443 |
| 15 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7831 |
| 3 April 2013 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8226 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 274 shownMuseums hold 274 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hemlock Grove between 1831 and 1973: 237 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Carroll, G., Charles M. Roberts 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass. | 1899 | Kellerman, W. A. | FLORA OF OHIO |
![]() | Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk. | 1940 | Carroll, G. | Big Spruce Creek |
![]() | Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Myosotis laxa Lehm. | 1831 | C. H. Jones | Orange Twp. |
![]() | Asplenium trichomanes L. | 1840 | Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard | Meigs County, Ohio |
![]() | Jungermannia sullivantii Austin | 1844 | W. S. Sullivant | In woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden |
![]() | Trichostrongylus Looss, 1905 | 1906 | E. Stevenson | Clifton |
![]() | Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl. | 1916 | Nixon, E. L. | Pomeroy |
![]() | Noturus eleutherus Jordan, 1877 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township |
![]() | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township |
![]() | Noturus stigmosus Taylor, 1969 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Shade River, trib of Ohio River, at Chester, center of Chester county |
All 274 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
2 since 2018The National Weather Service names Hemlock Grove in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | Flood | Hemlock Grove | $2,000 | The river gage near Chester on the Shade River showed the river rose above its 17 foot bankful level on the morning of the 30th. It crested at 17.8 feet near midnight that night, and returned to its banks during the pre-dawn hours of the 31st. This flooded the Sugar Run Creek bridge. |
| November 2018 | Flood | Hemlock Grove | $2,000 | The Sugar Run Creek Bridge was closed due to flooding along the Shade River. The river gage on the Shade River near Chester showed the river rose above its 17 foot bankfull level around sunrise on the 16th. The river crested at 17.7 feet late that afternoon and returned to its banks late that evening. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midway | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Kingsbury | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bucks Mill | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Darwin | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Flora | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Sumner | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Flatwoods | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Burlingham | 3.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064822. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.

























