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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.

Hue within Vinton County

Then and now

1910 to 2002

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Hue, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Hue, surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

8 since 2009

The 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
9 July 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2020Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15791
19 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources945
22 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestSPICE LICK
17 November 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2504
2 October 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15849

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 682 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1940not recordedSouth Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township
Hemitaxonus Ashmead, 18981900not recordedVinton Co., OH, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Pamphilius Latreille, not of this specimenPamphilius Latreille, 18021900not recordedVinton Co., OH, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Phyllachora junci, not of this specimenPhyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel1901W. A. K.; Kern E. H.New Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia helianthi, not of this specimenPuccinia helianthi Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia podophylli, not of this specimenPuccinia podophylli Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
A photograph of the species Gentiana andrewsii, not of this specimenGentiana andrewsii Griseb.1912Brown, F.C.McArthur
A photograph of the species Robinia hispida, not of this specimenRobinia hispida L.1912Crawford, C.G.southern Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501928Trautman, 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 2003

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003Flash FloodHue$10,000Headwaters of Brushy Fork flooded. Roads were blocked.
February 2019FloodHue$4,000Several 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 2024FloodHue$2,500Multiple road closures were observed across Vinton County as a result of flooding. These included State Route 56, State Route 278, and US 50.
April 2024Flash FloodHue$2,000State 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 2019FloodHue$2,000Many 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 2022FloodHue$500All of the westbound lanes of State Route 56 beyond Locust Grove Road were shut down due to high water.
March 2023FloodHue$250Prolonged road closures were observed along portions of State Routes 328 and 56 due to flooding.
March 2026FloodHue-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.

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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
Mount Pleasant2.6 miles15
Siverly2.6 miles15
Stella3.6 miles16
Orland4.3 miles15
Creola5.4 miles15
Goosetown (historical)5.4 miles16
New Plymouth5.8 miles15
Royal6.7 miles16

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.