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Hooksburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43787. It stands on Hooks Run. The Survey maps it on the Stockport quadrangle.

Hooksburg within Morgan County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hooksburg, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hooksburg, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 printed 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

39,743 words on this township

History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Windsor Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

David Emerson lived early on the Samuel Buck place. He afterward sold out and moved further up the river. Asa Emerson lived above Hooksburg in a double log house built of buckeye. There was a large orchard on the place. He sold this place and moved to the Chute, where he built a brick house. He went to Illinois.

Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.

Starting in life with only his natural resources for his capital, he has not only obtained a well-won competency, but has led an active, busy and successfid life, benefiting not only those immediately connected with him, but the general public as well.

Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.

In this connection it may lie proper to state a fact known to every business man in the county, that during the last thirteen years he has honored over $47,000 of paper he had indorsed for his friends. While with many this would lie regarded as a lack of business acumen, it is in his case wholly attributable to his kindness of heart.

Passage source: History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886.

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 Windsor Township - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Fires near this place

22 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hooksburg between 2012 and 2019, burning about 34 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5588
23 September 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5587
9 June 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14665
27 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14245
20 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources765
3 March 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources702

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 595 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 595 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hooksburg between 1887 and 1974: 492 Animalia, 93 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1962D. StansberyMuskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly
Specimen of Apocynum cannabinum L.Apocynum cannabinum L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrowe; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
A photograph of the species Peziza soleniiformis, not of this specimenPeziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.1887Morgan
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Crystallaria cincotta, not of this specimenCrystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 20081888Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.)Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percopsis omiscomaycus, not of this specimenPercopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Pimephales vigilax, not of this specimenPimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallBeverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1903not recordedMcConnelsville
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1904not recordedMeigs Creek

All 595 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hooksburg: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chesterhill Stone Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Number 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooksburg in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHooksburg$2,000Trees were blown down along Route 376.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHooksburg$500A tree fell down onto a power line on Bald Eagle Road in Hooksburg.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lovell2.1 miles12
Stockport2.5 miles12
Neelysville3.0 miles13
Pennsville3.8 miles12
Mill Grove3.9 miles14
Unionville4.4 miles14
Roxbury4.6 miles14
Brokaw4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064859. 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.