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Highland, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45132. It stands on South Fork Lees Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Highland within Highland County

Population over time

2 figures

Highland fell from 254 to 232 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
2010254
2020232-22 (-9%)

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 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, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Highland, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Oakgrove Road Bridge, Township Road 42 Spanning Little Miami River, Dodsonville, Highland County, OH
Oakgrove Road Bridge, Township Road 42 Spanning Little Miami River, Dodsonville, Highland County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Octagonal Schoolhouse, Sinking Spring, Highland County, OH
Octagonal Schoolhouse, Sinking Spring, Highland County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

3 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 2002 and 2006, burning about 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 March 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 November 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 335 shown

Museums hold 335 specimens collected within 10 miles of Highland between 1880 and 1973: 176 Animalia, 142 Fungi, 12 Protozoa, 4 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brown, H P, C. Triplehorn, Cavender, Horvath & Smith 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
Specimen of Entyloma compositarum Farl.Entyloma compositarum Farl.1894F. L. StevensHighland Falls.
Specimen of Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 18991922Cooke, William BridgeSeven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
Specimen of Phyllachora puncta (Cooke) CookePhyllachora puncta (Cooke) Cooke1939Cooke, William BridgeSeven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1880not recordedLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Elimia semicarinata, not of this specimenElimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1881S.M. TaggertLees Creek, Leesburg, North America
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #1 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #4 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Pimephales promelas, not of this specimenPimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 18201929Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #6 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Erythroneura calycula, not of this specimenErythroneura calycula McAtee, 19201930Frederick W. Poos
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio

All 335 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 Highland: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Haven PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Haven PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Highland County

Storms nearby

9 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Highland in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHighland$30,000A severe thunderstorm produces winds that knocked down several barns and destroyed numerous trees.
July 2000HailHighland$5,000Golfball-size hail fell and some trees were knocked down by strong winds.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHighland$5,000Several trees downed.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHighland$4,000Trees and large branches were knocked down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHighland$3,000Trees were downed in the town of Highland due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHighland$1,000A large tree was knocked down at OH-28 and Careytown Road.
June 2017Flash FloodHighland-Flowing water was reported over several locations along Route 72 North between Samantha and Highland. The road was impassable.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHighland-Two small trees were downed along State Route 28.
May 1996HailHighland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Highland 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
Highland Station0.6 miles12
Leesburg2.4 miles12
Careytown2.9 miles11
Gist Settlement3.3 miles11
Fallsville (historical)4.0 miles11
Samantha4.2 miles12
Bridges4.8 miles12
East Monroe5.3 miles13

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 HighlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981295The 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 1064836. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.