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Hemlock, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Salt Lick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43730. It stands on Pine Run. The Survey maps it on the New Straitsville quadrangle. 142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Hemlock within Perry County

Population over time

2 figures

Hemlock fell from 155 to 142 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010155
2020142-13 (-8%)

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hemlock, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Hemlock, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

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

38 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Hemlock between 2012 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Other causes4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestDUKES OF HAZZARD
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestTRUCK FIRE
19 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1921
13 June 2016Smokingunder an acreWayne National ForestCUNNINGHAM
11 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWayne National ForestMILLER TOWN RD
27 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestBARN FIRE
23 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestMUNCY
7 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 96 shown

Museums hold 96 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hemlock between 1890 and 1973: 69 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Coker W. C., Conan J. Taylor, Cooke, W. B.; Cooke, V. G. 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 Pucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) ArthurPucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) Arthur1891W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Phaeoceros carolinianus, not of this specimenPhaeoceros carolinianus (Michx.) Prosk.1890W. C. WernerRendville.
A photograph of the species Anomodon attenuatus, not of this specimenAnomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Huebener1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Anthoceros punctatus, not of this specimenAnthoceros punctatus L.1891not recordedRendville
A photograph of the species Ascocoryne cylichnium, not of this specimenAscocoryne cylichnium (Tul.) Korf1891W. A. Kellerman
Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Austin1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Callicladium haldanianum, not of this specimenCallicladium haldanianum (Grev.) H.A.Crum1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Gottsche1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Hypnum jutlandicum, not of this specimenHypnum jutlandicum Holmen & E.Warncke1891W. C. WernerRendville
Panellus stipticus (Bull.) P.Karst.1891W. A. KellermanRendville
A photograph of the species Puccinia coronata, not of this specimenPuccinia coronata f. coronata1891W. A. Kellerman
Puccinia punctata Link1891W. A. Kellerman

All 96 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hemlock: 3 past producers. 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
Columbus Clay PlantClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Columbus Clay PlantClayPast Producer
Nutter Brothers Clay Company PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms nearby

3 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Hemlock in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2013Thunderstorm WindHemlock$2,000Large branches were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHemlock-Several trees fell across roads.
June 2002HailHemlock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Ludington0.4 miles15
Carrington0.7 miles15
Buckingham1.0 miles15
Sulphur Springs1.0 miles15
Drakes1.5 miles15
Congo2.6 miles14
Hamburg (historical)2.8 miles14
Shawnee3.2 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on HemlockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2455033The 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 1076036. 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.

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.