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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Hills, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pee Pee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45690. The Survey maps it on the Summithill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hills within Pike County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hills (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hills (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

60 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hills (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 95 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
Debris and open burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1901
22 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5607
16 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1204
3 May 2015Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1331

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,122 shown

Museums hold 1,122 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hills (historical) between 1889 and 1975: 1,041 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed) 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 Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1889C. J. HerrickWaverly
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Clayton, W. M.Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA

All 1,122 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
Peck2.1 miles14
Waverly Heights4.5 miles13
Waverly Place4.5 miles13
Kilgore Estates4.6 miles13
Waverly4.7 miles13
Waverly Gables4.7 miles15
Buchanan4.8 miles14
Green Acres4.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067178. 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.