Hestoria, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45167. It stands on Redoak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maysville West quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 76 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
13 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.
- 1915 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1919 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Maysville West quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Maysville West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville West quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Maysville West quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the 1883 county history
49,884 words on this townshipThe county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Union Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Union Township - 49,884 words.
Fires nearby
1 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hestoria between 2003 and 2003, burning about 0 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 | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 296 shownMuseums hold 296 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hestoria between 1843 and 1974: 256 Animalia, 33 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Ahles, H.E. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | Small Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township |
![]() | Physcomitrium immersum Sull. | 1843 | W. S. Sullivant; A. Gray | ad fluminis Ohio ripas prope Maysville, Kentucky [bank of Ohio River, near Maysville] |
![]() | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | Kellerman W. A. | Cedar Hill |
![]() | Stictis Pers., 1800 | 1883 | Kellerman W. A. | Cedar Hill |
| Cercospora circumscissa Sacc. | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley | |
![]() | Cercospora sordida Sacc. | 1899 | King H. B. | Ripley |
![]() | Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley |
| Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley | |
| Microsphaera peckii U.Braun | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley | |
![]() | Microsphaera ravenelii Berk. | 1899 | Patterson Flora W. | Ripley |
![]() | Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr. | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley |
![]() | Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter | 1899 | Patterson F. W. | Ripley |
All 296 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hestoria: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franfort Mtls. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clems Shady Nook Park | 0.4 miles | 13 | |
| East Ripley | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| Ripley | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Stringtown | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| Levanna | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Reeds | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Centerpoint | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Redoak | 5.5 miles | 11 |
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 Q122557380 | The 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 1053074. 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.





















