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

Holiday Hills, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It stands on Bear Run. The Survey maps it on the Apple Grove quadrangle.

Holiday Hills within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holiday Hills, surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Holiday Hills, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

67 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Holiday Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning	45
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
14 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 1997	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	MILLSTONE ROAD
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11987
9 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	PLEASANT RIDGE ROAD
8 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	CRAB CREEK ROAD
6 April 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4207
18 April 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	MT. CARMEL REPORT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 360 shown

Museums hold 360 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holiday Hills between 1888 and 1975: 199 Animalia, 120 Fungi, 27 Plantae, 12 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., Bartley, F. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Macrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Near Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Percina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.	1891	Millspaugh C. F.	Point Pleasant
Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1891	Millspaugh C. F.	Point Pleasant
Uromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 1847	1891	Millspaugh C. F.	Point Pleasant
unnamed	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Arthromacra aenea	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 360 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Raccoon Island	0.9 miles	15
Angola (historical)	2.1 miles	15
Thivener	2.1 miles	15
Angel	3.0 miles	14
Eureka	3.1 miles	15
Clipper Mills	3.1 miles	16
Hilton (historical)	4.0 miles	14
Leaper	4.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1698977. 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.