Hue, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45622. The Survey maps it on the South Bloomingville quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1910 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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 Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
8 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hue between 2009 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15791 |
| 19 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 945 |
| 22 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | SPICE LICK |
| 17 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2504 |
| 2 October 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15849 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 682 shownMuseums hold 682 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hue between 1900 and 1975: 583 Animalia, 62 Fungi, 37 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Arden R. Gaufin, Atkinson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1940 | not recorded | South Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township |
| Hemitaxonus Ashmead, 1898 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
![]() | Pamphilius Latreille, 1802 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Phyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel | 1901 | W. A. K.; Kern E. H. | New Plymouth |
![]() | Puccinia helianthi Schwein. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | New Plymouth |
![]() | Puccinia podophylli Schwein. | 1901 | W. A. Kellerman | New Plymouth |
![]() | Gentiana andrewsii Griseb. | 1912 | Brown, F.C. | McArthur |
![]() | Robinia hispida L. | 1912 | Crawford, C.G. | southern Ohio |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
![]() | Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington) | Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township |
All 682 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
8 since 2003The National Weather Service names Hue in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 6 flood, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Hue | $10,000 | Headwaters of Brushy Fork flooded. Roads were blocked. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Hue | $4,000 | Several roads flooded near McArthur, including State Routes 93 and 328. State Route 356 was also closed due to flooding along Raccoon Creek.||The stream gage on Raccoon Creek near Bolins Mills showed the creek rose above its 14 foot bankfull level just after midnight on the 13th. It crested at 14.6 that evening before returning to its banks late on the 14th. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Hue | $2,500 | Multiple road closures were observed across Vinton County as a result of flooding. These included State Route 56, State Route 278, and US 50. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Hue | $2,000 | State Route 328 was closed in both directions near State Route 56 due to flooding. In McArthur, vehicles became stuck in high water along Goose Creek Road. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Hue | $2,000 | Many roads were closed across the county due to flooding. This included State Route 278 near Prattsville along Wheelabout Creek, State Route 93 along Wolf Run near Dundas and Route 50 near Allensville also near and McArthur.||Raccoon Creek flooded near Bolins Mills. The stream gage showed the creek rose above its 14 foot bankfull level very early on the 7th, and crested at nearly 16 feet late afternoon on the 8th. It returned to its banks by sunrise on the 10th. This flooded a section of Route 50 near Bolins Mills. |
| February 2022 | Flood | Hue | $500 | All of the westbound lanes of State Route 56 beyond Locust Grove Road were shut down due to high water. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Hue | $250 | Prolonged road closures were observed along portions of State Routes 328 and 56 due to flooding. |
| March 2026 | Flood | Hue | - | Water was observed on road at State Route 56 and Huggins Road. State Route 328 was closed from State Route 93 to State Route 56 due to flooding from Racoon Creek. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Siverly | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Stella | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Orland | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Creola | 5.4 miles | 15 | |
| Goosetown (historical) | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| New Plymouth | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Royal | 6.7 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076086. 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.
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.

























