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

Mound Crossing, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Laurel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43135. It stands on Jack Run. The Survey maps it on the Rockbridge quadrangle.

Mound Crossing 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 Mound Crossing, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Mound Crossing, 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

15 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Mound Crossing between 2013 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1426
3 May 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1425
24 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 March 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15489
12 March 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11065
1 March 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,660 shown

Museums hold 3,660 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mound Crossing between 1839 and 1975: 2,398 Animalia, 706 Plantae, 502 Fungi, 34 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 9 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A VERWYST, A. L. Welden 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 3,660 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rockhouse (historical)	0.9 miles	15
South Perry	2.6 miles	15
Blackburn (historical)	2.6 miles	13
Gibisonville	3.0 miles	15
Buena Vista	3.9 miles	13
Pursell (historical)	4.7 miles	15
Haynes	5.8 miles	15
South Bloomingville	6.2 miles	15

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 Q122570031

The 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 1062906. 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.