Hollister, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Trimble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45732. It stands on Mud Fork. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 91 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.
- 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
62 since 1994The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Hollister between 1994 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | ARCHERS FORK FIRE |
| 26 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | LITTLE |
| 12 August 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BOC FIRE |
| 9 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | 329 BRAVO |
| 3 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | BIG BAILEY |
| 17 June 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | BURLEY FIRE |
| 6 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | OLD 78 FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 72 shownMuseums hold 72 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hollister between 1898 and 1972: 59 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolen, H. (Harold), Collector(s): John W. Meldrim, DAVID M SEVER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood | 1898 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1899 | Selby, A.D. | Palos |
![]() | Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 | 1916 | not recorded | |
![]() | Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger | 1919 | L. Bonar | Glouster |
![]() | Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818) | 1929 | Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Fontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad. | 1932 | E. L. Braun | On lower tributary of Bundle Run, above falls |
| Synandra hispidula (Michx.) Britton | 1939 | F. Bartley | Along Ohio Brush Creek near Jacksonville | |
| Diploperla robusta Stark & Gaufin, 1974 | 1940 | J. D. Walker | ||
| Sweltsa hoffmani Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2009 | 1940 | J. D. Walker |
All 72 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
4 since 1996The National Weather Service names Hollister in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hollister | $15,000 | Wind damage consistent with a microburst caused tree damage near Jacksonville. The damage started near Taylor Ridge Road where several trees were uprooted. A section of roof from a single family home was removed. The microburst winds traveled southeast from there, through Jacksonville, were several trees were uprooted along Sunday Creek. |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Hollister | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hollister | $6,000 | Multiple trees and power poles were downed west of Glouster. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Hollister | $4,000 | Multiple roads were closed throughout Athens County due to flooding. These included portions of State Route 550, State Route 56, and State Route 329. Smaller roads were also closed for the majority of the day due to high water spilled over by swollen local creeks, including Hebbardsville Road, Ladd Ridge Road, Jacksonville Road, and Dutch Creek Road. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076070. 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.






















