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.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1917 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
1 since 2012The 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 125 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 36 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1916 | A. B. Seymour | |
![]() | Phyllachora luteomaculata (Schwein.) Orton | 1939 | 14521 | The Seven Caves, along the Rocky Fork of Paint Creek |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | near Mowrystown, White Oak Twp., Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Stupka, A. (Arthur) | S. of Hillsboro, near Brown Co. line, Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1938 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1938 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Turtle Creek, south of Lynchburg, ~0.4 mi SE of Lynchburg, Dodson township |
![]() | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1938 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township |
![]() | Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1938 | not recorded | East Fork White Oak Creek, within Highland Co, Highland County, township n/a |
![]() | Notropis cornutus chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1938 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township |
![]() | Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | N. Branch of White Oak Creek, 2 mii NE of Buford, Clay Township |
![]() | Phenacobius mirabilis (Girard, 1856) | 1938 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Turtle Creek, within Dodson township, near Lynchburg, Dodson township |
![]() | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1939 | Rhoades, 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricetown | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Winkle | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Danville | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| East Danville | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Taylorsville | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Gath | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Harwood | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Luttleton (historical) | 3.8 miles | 12 |
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 Hollowtown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q24883754 | 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 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.
























