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

Hooker, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43130. It stands on Greenfield Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amanda quadrangle.

Hooker within Fairfield 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 Hooker, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Hooker, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the county-history sources

5,578 words on this township

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Greenfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Greenfield was first settled in 1799, and was incorporated as a township in 1805. Isaac Meason, father of the late Venerable John Meason, was among the first to settle in the bounds of Greenfield. At the time of his coming there is said to have been not above half a dozen of families within the boundaries of the then very large township. Their names are : Captain Joseph Stewart, father of Levi Stewart, now of Lancaster, Wm. IStcFarland, Ralph Cherry, Jeremiah Cherry, Joshua Meeks, Dorsey Meason and Samuel Randall. They expected to hold their lands under the "Tomahawk" Pre-Emption Claim, but they were subsequently sectioned and sold as Congress Lands at two dollars an acre, without any reference to " Squatter Sovereignty. "

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

The first election for the township was held at Yankeetown in the fall of 1805. The first tax-collector in Greenfield was Colonel Crooks, who was subsequently SheriS" of the county. Emanuel Carpenter is also spoken of as being at that time a citizen of Greenfield. His surviving friends, however, do not remember that he ever lived anywhere but down Hocking.

Passage source: A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Greenfield Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hooker between 2015 and 2020, burning about 6 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	5
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15338
5 July 2020	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15801
5 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15201
16 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15761
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15458
19 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	524
4 November 2020	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15878

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,349 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,349 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hooker between 1843 and 1975: 1,843 Animalia, 395 Fungi, 101 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Bales, B. R., Birch, W. 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
Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.	1892	W.A. Kellerman
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens	Lancaster
Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
Phyllogonium norvegicum Brid.	1843	Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
Bruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
Dicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton	1849	C. L. Lesquereux
Dicranum condensatum Hedw.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
Aecidium Pers.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Near Amanda
Aecidium compositarum Mart.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium galii Pers.	1883	Kellerman, W.A.	Amanda

All 2,349 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hooker: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Davis Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Davis Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Favil Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Igel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jimmys Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooker in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hooker	$6,000	Multiple trees were downed, causing power lines to also be downed.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hooker	$5,000	A tree fell onto a house on Lithopolis Road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hooker	$2,000	Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2022	Hail	Hooker	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Hooker	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fairfield County

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
Colonial Estates	0.7 miles	12
Rock Mill	2.8 miles	12
Dumontville	3.1 miles	12
Wesley Chapel	3.8 miles	12
Lancaster	4.0 miles	13
Carpenters Addition	4.0 miles	13
Carroll	4.2 miles	12
Tarhe Town (historical)	4.2 miles	13

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 Hooker	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133833	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 1064858. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.