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Hockingport, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45739. It stands on Hocking River. The Survey maps it on the Coolville quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Hockingport within Athens County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hockingport, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hockingport, surveyed 1907

Population over time

2 figures

Hockingport fell from 212 to 205 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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
2010212
2020205-7 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed 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 near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Hockingport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 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 burning14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1861
29 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry504 SOUTH SCHULTZ ROAD
18 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBEEMAN ROAD
8 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEW ENGLAND RIDGE ROAD
17 August 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEW ENGLAND RIDGE
5 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryWALKER LANE
8 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 109 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 109 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hockingport between 1928 and 1974: 109 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, C. Weatherby, Dennis, D. M. & Adler, K. K. 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 Cynips Linnaeus, not of this specimenCynips Linnaeus, 17581928A. C. KinseyCoolville
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, not of this specimenGyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1931Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, at mouth, at Hockingport OH, Troy Township
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, at mouth, at Hockingport OH, Troy Township
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
A photograph of the species Dorosoma cepedianum, not of this specimenDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township

All 109 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hockingport: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
D.V. Weber Sand and Grave PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Griffin Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Athens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hockingport in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 flood, 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
July 2025Flash FloodHockingport-Flood waters were observed at the entrance of Desonier State Park. Visitors were unable to get out due to flood waters and a tree down blocking the road. A road was also washed out near Coolville.
March 2011FloodHockingport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Youba1.9 miles16
Coolville3.3 miles14
Torch3.5 miles16
Ireland4.8 miles13
Vanderhoof5.9 miles14
Frost7.4 miles13
Lottridge8.2 miles13
Beebe10.3 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 HockingportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472869The 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 1064846. 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.