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

Herefork, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ruggles Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44851. The Survey maps it on the New London quadrangle.

Herefork within Ashland County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Herefork, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Herefork, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Herefork between 2020 and 2020, burning about 6 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
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
18 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15782

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 88 shown

Museums hold 88 specimens collected within 10 miles of Herefork between 1905 and 1971: 58 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, David F. Van Haverbeke, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1905Fair D. R.Ruggles
Septoria pyricola Desm.1905Fair D. R.Ruggles
A photograph of the species Sphaeropsis malorum, not of this specimenSphaeropsis malorum (Berk.) Berk.1905Fair D. R.Ruggles
A photograph of the species Amphiagrion saucium, not of this specimenAmphiagrion saucium (Burmeister, 1839)1916not recordedSullivan
A photograph of the species Conocephalus attenuatus, not of this specimenConocephalus attenuatus (Scudder, 1869)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Vermilion River, TR 608 RM 62.1, 1.14 miles west of Savannah OH, Clear Creek township
A photograph of the species Carex limosa, not of this specimenCarex limosa L.1938F. BartleyMud Lake
A photograph of the species Carex trisperma, not of this specimenCarex trisperma Dewey1938F. BartleyMud Lake
A photograph of the species Boleosoma nigrum, not of this specimenBoleosoma nigrum nigrum (Rafinesque, 1820)1939Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Vermilion River, within Ruggles township, near Savannah OH, Ruggles Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)1939Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Vermilion River, within Ruggles township, near Savannah OH, Ruggles Township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1939Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Vermilion River, within Ruggles township, near Savannah OH, Ruggles Township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651939Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Vermilion River, within Ruggles township, near Savannah OH, Ruggles Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191939Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Vermilion River, within Ruggles township, near Savannah OH, Ruggles Township

All 88 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Herefork: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Acme Paving and Sealing Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
BiglowClayProducer

Every working recorded in Ashland 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
Ruggles2.1 miles12
Nova5.2 miles11
Savannah6.8 miles16
Bailey Lake8.1 miles16
Sullivan9.4 miles12
Nankin11.3 miles16
Polk12.4 miles12
Paradise Hill13.4 miles14

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 Q122569367The 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 1064826. 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.