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

Hope Ridge, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43793. It stands on Wheeler Run. The Survey maps it on the Woodsfield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hope Ridge within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hope Ridge (historical), surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Hope Ridge (historical), surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

15 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hope Ridge (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 2 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5545
15 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15329
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15819
26 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4846
22 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4607
17 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4814
10 April 2013Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources779

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 370 shown

Museums hold 370 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hope Ridge (historical) between 1860 and 1975: 355 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1922Thompson W. H.Woodsfield
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Sunfish Creek, within east Adams township, near Clarington, Adams township

All 370 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Kerr1.1 miles13
Woodsfield2.0 miles14
Ozark3.3 miles14
Coats3.5 miles14
Miltonsburg3.6 miles13
Decker4.1 miles13
Jerusalem4.5 miles14
Malaga4.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1072068. 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.