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.
Population over time
2 figuresHockingport 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. 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 212 | |
| 2020 | 205 | -7 (-3%) |
Then and now
1907 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
4 since 1998The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hockingport between 1998 and 2019, burning about 8 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 burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1861 |
| 26 February 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14977 |
| 5 December 1998 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | NEW ENGLAND RIDGE |
| 1 November 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 109 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Cynips Linnaeus, 1758 | 1928 | A. C. Kinsey | Coolville |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1931 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township |
![]() | Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township |
| Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, at mouth, at Hockingport OH, Troy Township | |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, at mouth, at Hockingport OH, Troy Township |
![]() | Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856 | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township |
![]() | Dorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818) | 1939 | Trautman, 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.
Storms nearby
2 since 2011The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Hockingport | - | 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 2011 | Flood | Hockingport | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hockingport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3472869 | The 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.
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.
























