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

Horner Hill, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rutland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. The Survey maps it on the Pomeroy quadrangle.

Horner Hill within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Horner Hill, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Horner Hill, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 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

16 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Horner Hill between 2009 and 2020, burning about 26 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 April 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1061
19 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4445
17 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15207
13 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4285
9 March 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15444
5 March 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15133

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 307 shown

Museums hold 307 specimens collected within 10 miles of Horner Hill between 1831 and 1973: 270 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Charles M. Roberts, Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard 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 Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.1899Kellerman, W. A.FLORA OF OHIO
Specimen of Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) AlexanderOdontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander1963William G. Gambill Jr.
Specimen of Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) BarnhartRatibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart1963William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1840Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John LeonardMeigs County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. SullivantIn woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden
A photograph of the species Trichostrongylus Looss, not of this specimenTrichostrongylus Looss, 19051906E. StevensonClifton
A photograph of the species Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1916Nixon, E. L.Pomeroy

All 307 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
Bunker Hill (historical)1.9 miles14
Wolfpen2.3 miles14
Harrisonville2.4 miles13
Lima3.0 miles14
Snowville4.4 miles13
Rutland4.4 miles13
Pageville4.7 miles13
Darwin4.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048853. 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.