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Knox, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45766. It stands on Onion Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mineral quadrangle.

Knox within Vinton County

Then and now

1904 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Knox, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Knox, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 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

14 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Knox between 2013 and 2020, burning about 69 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning4

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
31 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1427
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11011
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15691
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3634
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources632
22 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources487
15 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 479 shown

Museums hold 479 specimens collected within 10 miles of Knox between 1900 and 1975: 418 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W., C. C. Green 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 Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Calobata antennaepes Say, 18231900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Capnochroa LeConte, 18621900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Cephalops Fallén, 18101900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 479 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
Bolins Mills2.4 miles12
Hope4.5 miles15
Ural (historical)5.0 miles15
Pincher (historical)5.5 miles12
Zaleski5.9 miles15
Prattsville5.9 miles13
Vales Mills6.3 miles12
Arbaugh7.0 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on KnoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133893The 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 1064954. 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.