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

Horne, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43731. It stands on Black Fork. The Survey maps it on the Crooksville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Horne within Perry County

Then and now

1910 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Horne (historical), surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Horne (historical), surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

40 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Horne (historical) between 2013 and 2019, burning about 201 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 May 2015Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1346
6 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8146
24 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4586
20 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4665
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 185 shown

Museums hold 185 specimens collected within 10 miles of Horne (historical) between 1890 and 1975: 151 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bergstrom, J., Buchanan, J., Buker, W.E. 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 Pucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) ArthurPucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) Arthur1891W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Phaeoceros carolinianus, not of this specimenPhaeoceros carolinianus (Michx.) Prosk.1890W. C. WernerRendville.
A photograph of the species Anomodon attenuatus, not of this specimenAnomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Huebener1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Anthoceros punctatus, not of this specimenAnthoceros punctatus L.1891not recordedRendville
A photograph of the species Ascocoryne cylichnium, not of this specimenAscocoryne cylichnium (Tul.) Korf1891W. A. Kellerman
Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Austin1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Callicladium haldanianum, not of this specimenCallicladium haldanianum (Grev.) H.A.Crum1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Gottsche1891W. C. WernerRendville
A photograph of the species Holwaya gigantea, not of this specimenHolwaya gigantea (Peck) E.J.Durand1891W. A. Kellerman[Specific locality illegible.]
A photograph of the species Hypnum jutlandicum, not of this specimenHypnum jutlandicum Holmen & E.Warncke1891W. C. WernerRendville
Panellus stipticus (Bull.) P.Karst.1891W. A. KellermanRendville
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner

All 185 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Horne (historical): 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Cannon Clay MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Cannon Clay MineClayPast Producer
Crooksville PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Perry 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
Brigglesville0.4 miles13
Conway Addition0.6 miles13
Crooksville0.7 miles13
Flatiron1.0 miles15
Stringtown1.0 miles15
McLuney1.4 miles15
Rose Farm1.8 miles15
Milligan2.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065534. 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.