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Hide-A-Way Hills, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43155. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle. 976 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,150 feet above sea level.

Hide-A-Way Hills within Hocking County

Population over time

2 figures

Hide-A-Way Hills grew from 794 to 976 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
2010794
2020976+182 (+23%)

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hide-A-Way Hills, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Hide-A-Way Hills, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

17 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Hide-A-Way Hills between 2003 and 2020, burning about 53 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15676
20 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7937
1 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7326
29 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15540
25 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesBERNE TWP.
21 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources489
16 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources362

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,377 shown

Museums hold 1,377 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hide-A-Way Hills between 1839 and 1975: 999 Animalia, 209 Plantae, 161 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), B. Taylor 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.

All 1,377 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Joe (historical)3.7 miles13
Max (historical)4.9 miles13
Pine Grove (historical)5.5 miles13
Rockbridge5.7 miles13
Enterprise6.2 miles14
Webb Summit7.7 miles14
West Logan8.4 miles14
Winona (historical)8.5 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.

Wikipedia article on Hide-A-Way HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5897075The 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 1048834. 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.