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

Hollowtown, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. It stands on Stony Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sardinia quadrangle.

Hollowtown within Highland County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hollowtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hollowtown, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

1 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hollowtown between 2012 and 2012, burning about 125 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 36 shown

Museums hold 36 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hollowtown between 1916 and 1971: 24 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A. B. Seymour, Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster; Preparator(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
Specimen of Phyllachora luteomaculata (Schwein.) OrtonPhyllachora luteomaculata (Schwein.) Orton193914521The Seven Caves, along the Rocky Fork of Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Mowrystown, White Oak Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Stupka, A. (Arthur)S. of Hillsboro, near Brown Co. line, Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651938Rhoades, R. (Randall)Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191938Rhoades, R. (Randall)Turtle Creek, south of Lynchburg, ~0.4 mi SE of Lynchburg, Dodson township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191938Rhoades, R. (Randall)Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1938not recordedEast Fork White Oak Creek, within Highland Co, Highland County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820)1938Rhoades, R. (Randall)Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township
A photograph of the species Orconectes rusticus, not of this specimenOrconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)1938R. RhoadesN. Branch of White Oak Creek, 2 mii NE of Buford, Clay Township
A photograph of the species Phenacobius mirabilis, not of this specimenPhenacobius mirabilis (Girard, 1856)1938Rhoades, R. (Randall)Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1939Rhoades, R. (Randall)East Fork Little Miami River, within Clinton Co, Clinton County, township n/a

All 36 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
Pricetown2.4 miles12
Winkle3.2 miles14
Danville3.2 miles13
East Danville3.3 miles14
Taylorsville3.5 miles14
Gath3.5 miles13
Harwood3.7 miles12
Luttleton (historical)3.8 miles12

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 HollowtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24883754The 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 1041674. 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.