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Hiett, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45167. The Survey maps it on the Maysville East quadrangle.

Hiett within Brown County

Then and now

1929 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hiett, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Hiett, surveyed 1929

Compare 1929 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

6 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hiett between 2003 and 2019, burning about 46 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15118
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 February 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 160 shown

Museums hold 160 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hiett between 1843 and 1974: 127 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Bartley, F. 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 Physcomitrium immersum, not of this specimenPhyscomitrium immersum Sull.1843W. S. Sullivant; A. Grayad fluminis Ohio ripas prope Maysville, Kentucky [bank of Ohio River, near Maysville]
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
A photograph of the species Stictis Pers., not of this specimenStictis Pers., 18001883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercospora sordida, not of this specimenCercospora sordida Sacc.1899King H. B.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera peckii U.Braun1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Microsphaera ravenelii, not of this specimenMicrosphaera ravenelii Berk.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near Ripley, Union Twp., Brown Co., Ohio

All 160 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 Hiett: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Franfort Mtls. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maysville KilnCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Brown 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
Slickaway2.9 miles15
Ellsberry2.9 miles15
Neel3.4 miles9
Huntington Park4.2 miles13
Aberdeen5.0 miles13
Clems Shady Nook Park5.8 miles13
Hestoria6.0 miles13
Stringtown6.1 miles11

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 HiettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133819The 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 1055961. 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.