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

Hollywood by the Lake, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43025. It stands on Watkins Island. The Survey maps it on the Millersport quadrangle.

Hollywood by the Lake within Licking County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hollywood by the Lake, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Hollywood by the Lake, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

4 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hollywood by the Lake between 2009 and 2020, burning about 30 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	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
20 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15708
15 April 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15709
1 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 November 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15969

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,635 shown

Museums hold 1,635 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hollywood by the Lake between 1843 and 1975: 1,362 Animalia, 204 Fungi, 42 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. W. Lindsey 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
Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1884	F. S. Robinson
Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822	1893	unknown	Licking Reservoir
Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1893	J.B. Ellis	Granville
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA
Caeoma podophyllatum Schwein.	1890	not recorded	Granville
Aecidium impatientis Sacc.	1893	not recorded	Granville
Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst., 1886	1893	Jones, H.L.	Granville, Ohio.
Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899	1893	Morgan, A. P.	Granville, O.
Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.	1893	H. L. Jones

All 1,635 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
Buckeye Lake	2.1 miles	14
Luray	2.3 miles	11
Har-Win Acres	2.5 miles	11
Hebron	2.6 miles	14
Moscow (historical)	3.3 miles	14
Canyon Villa Estates	3.4 miles	11
Pinecrest Estates	3.8 miles	11
Harbor Hills	4.1 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122570321

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 1083527. 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.