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Knollwood Village, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43113. The Survey maps it on the Circleville quadrangle.

Knollwood Village within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Knollwood Village, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Knollwood Village, surveyed 1914

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

1 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Knollwood Village between 2019 and 2019, burning about 0 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 burning1

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
25 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15347

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,578 shown

Museums hold 2,578 specimens collected within 10 miles of Knollwood Village between 1829 and 1975: 2,342 Animalia, 149 Fungi, 84 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Acker, G. & Class 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 Aecidium galii Pers.Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda
Specimen of Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.1883W. A. KellermanAmanda
Specimen of Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1892W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Rallus elegans, not of this specimenRallus elegans elegans Audubon, 18341829Florence, A. (Arledge)Col Anderson farm 6 1/2 mi west of Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121876Jones, H. (Howard)Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981877Jones, H. (Howard)Goose Pond, near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert, 17831879Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia longicauda, not of this specimenBartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr1880W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Mearns, E.A.Circleville near Scioto River.
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1880Jones, H. (Howard)Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Setophaga ruticilla, not of this specimenSetophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA

All 2,578 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Knollwood Village: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Raleigh Spradlin Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Raleigh Spradlin Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sturm & Dillard PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sturm and Dillard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sturm and Dillard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pickaway 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
Campus Court0.6 miles13
Oak Park0.6 miles13
Heathergreen1.3 miles13
Northwood Park1.6 miles13
Graystone Villas1.9 miles13
Sheldon (historical)2.2 miles13
Bridlewood2.6 miles11
Voorheis (historical)2.7 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122549255The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062842. 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.