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

Horeb, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45656. It stands on Hewitt Run. The Survey maps it on the Oak Hill quadrangle.

Horeb within Jackson County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Horeb, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Horeb, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

53 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Horeb between 1994 and 2019, burning about 231 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestSTATE RT 140 #1 FIRE
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 August 2007Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8586
7 May 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 May 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15197
1 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 510 shown

Museums hold 510 specimens collected within 10 miles of Horeb between 1899 and 1974: 208 Animalia, 179 Plantae, 118 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Beach, S. (Sam) 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 Metzgeria furcata (L.) CordaMetzgeria furcata (L.) Corda1925Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorWhite's Gulch
Specimen of Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Polyporus semipileatus PeckPolyporus semipileatus Peck1928Walter PhillipsMill Hollow, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rorippa Scop., not of this specimenRorippa Scop.1905F. Bartley3 mi south of Jackson
A photograph of the species Eriophyes laevis, not of this specimenEriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889)1923Miller, A. E. (August E.)Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A.
unnamed1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Bazzania trilobata, not of this specimenBazzania trilobata (L.) Gray1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Calypogeia trichomanis, not of this specimenCalypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia bicuspidata, not of this specimenCephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
Cephalozia media Lindb.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch

All 510 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Horeb: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
A.P. Green Refractories Co. PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Cedar Heights Clay PitsClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Cedar Heights Clay PitsClayProducer
Davis Brick Plant #2Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Oak Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Oak Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Zoar Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Zoar Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Oak Hill2.1 miles10
Hitchcock2.4 miles10
Banner2.7 miles10
Blackfork Junction3.0 miles11
Clay3.3 miles10
Monroe3.4 miles10
McKitterick (historical)3.8 miles10
Camba4.3 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067414. 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.