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

Joe, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43107. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Joe within Hocking 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 Joe (historical), surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Joe (historical), surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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

35 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Joe (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 78 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 burning	20
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
1 May 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	INBODEN
6 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15615
3 April 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15614
25 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	BRASS RING FIRE
24 April 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15676
20 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7937

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,100 shown

Museums hold 1,100 specimens collected within 10 miles of Joe (historical) between 1839 and 1975: 750 Animalia, 192 Plantae, 150 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Bartley, F. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829	1890	Detmers, Freda	Sugar Grove
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	M. Craig	Sugar Grove
Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter	1892	W.A. Kellerman
Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.	1841	not recorded
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs	1841	W. S. Sullivant
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1842	W. S. Sullivant

All 1,100 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Joe (historical): 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Maxville Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Maxville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Hocking 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Max (historical)	1.3 miles	13
Hide-A-Way Hills	3.7 miles	13
Webb Summit	4.8 miles	14
Winona (historical)	5.3 miles	14
Enterprise	6.9 miles	14
Old Gore	7.3 miles	14
Logan	7.4 miles	14
Gore	7.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067398. 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.