Hickory Hills, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1986

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.

• 1907 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Ridgeville Corners quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

The County of Williams : a History of Williams County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Townships ; Also a Biographical Department, published 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Hills in 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lock Port
• Stryker
• Terrace Aires
• Tiffin Meadows

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 47 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hickory Hills between 1890 and 1974: 46 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C.H. Kennedy, CLARENCE CLARK, Cameron 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
	Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc.	1890	Woodard Edwin	Stryker
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1927	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
	Mustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901)	1929	R. Bernath	Stryker
	Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Conant, R. (Roger)	Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
	Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Conant, R. (Roger)	Extension Southeastern, near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
	Clioperla clio (Newman, 1839)	1934	C.H. Kennedy
	Rhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 1854	1938	Roszman, F. D.	Beaver Creek, within Williams Co, Williams County, township n/a
	Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	Cameron, J. B.	Beaver Creek, Sec 21 of Jefferson township, ~4.9 mi SE of Holiday City, Jefferson township
	Notropis cornutus chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	Cameron, J. B.	Beaver Creek, Sec 21 of Jefferson township, ~4.9 mi SE of Holiday City, Jefferson township
	Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)	1939	Cameron, J. B.	Beaver Creek, Sec 21 of Jefferson township, ~4.9 mi SE of Holiday City, Jefferson township

All 47 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055248. 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.