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.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 12 printed 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.
- 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stockport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Stockport quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
39,743 words on this townshipHistory 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 2012Regional 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5588 |
| 23 September 2016 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5587 |
| 9 June 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14665 |
| 27 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14245 |
| 20 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 765 |
| 3 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 702 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 595 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1962 | D. Stansbery | Muskingum River, Waterford, Below Dam At Beverly |
![]() | Apocynum cannabinum L. | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrowe; M. Johnson | Wolf Creek Wildlife Area |
![]() | Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh. | 1887 | Morgan | |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Crystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 2008 | 1888 | Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.) | Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township |
![]() | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio |
![]() | Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River. |
![]() | Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822) | 1903 | not recorded | McConnelsville |
![]() | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1904 | not recorded | Meigs Creek |
All 595 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterhill Stone Co. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Number 2 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooksburg | $2,000 | Trees were blown down along Route 376. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hooksburg | $500 | A tree fell down onto a power line on Bald Eagle Road in Hooksburg. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovell | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Stockport | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Neelysville | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Pennsville | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Mill Grove | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Unionville | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Roxbury | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Brokaw | 4.9 miles | 14 |
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.




















