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Highland City, Ohio

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43943. It stands on Little Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tiltonsville quadrangle.

Highland City within Jefferson County

Then and now

1902 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Highland City, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Highland City, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

27 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

30 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Highland City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1

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
13 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryGIRTYS RT RD
1 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryTOP OF HUKILLS RUN
2 May 1996Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryGREEN'S RUN
10 May 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBEECH BOTTOM
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBEED BOTTOM
3 April 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry49 HILL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 216 shown

Museums hold 216 specimens collected within 10 miles of Highland City between 1877 and 1974: 165 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 22 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, Baer, C.H. Kennedy 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 Betula lenta, not of this specimenBetula lenta L.1877Wertz, H.W.Buffalo Creek near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, H.G.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Polypodium virginianum, not of this specimenPolypodium virginianum L.1879J. M. CoulterCharlestown
A photograph of the species Ionaspis lacustris, not of this specimenIonaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni1893Calkins, W. W.Short Creek
Actinonema rosae (Lib.) Fr.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Graphiola phoenicis, not of this specimenGraphiola phoenicis (Moug. ex Fr.) Poit.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1904Sheldon J. L.Wellsburg
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
Phyllosticta hortorum Speg.1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg
Phyllosticta limitata Peck1904Sheldon John L.Wellsburg

All 216 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Highland City: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dredge No. 16Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Rayland0.3 miles27
Jackson Heights0.5 miles27
Tiltonsville0.9 miles27
Grandview Heights0.9 miles27
Connor1.2 miles27
Warrenton1.2 miles27
Connorville1.4 miles27
Upland Heights2.1 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063803. 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.