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

Mount Hope, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44660. The Survey maps it on the Berlin quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Mount Hope within Holmes County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Hope, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mount Hope, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

2 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hope between 2007 and 2010, 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 204 shown

Museums hold 204 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Hope between 1890 and 1974: 170 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, B. Fink 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 Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1896Wetzstein, A.Fryburg
Specimen of Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.1914Drushel, J.A.
Specimen of Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) LindUstulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind1914B. Fink
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Collector(s): unknownMillesburg
A photograph of the species Arachnion album, not of this specimenArachnion album Schwein.1893A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Schizophyllum commune, not of this specimenSchizophyllum commune Fr.1901A. D. SelbyMillersburg
A photograph of the species Hyla versicolor, not of this specimenHyla versicolor LeConte, 18251907not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1907not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1907not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Specimen of Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1914Drushel, J.A.
Specimen of Quercus rubra L.Quercus rubra L.1916Drushel, J.A.
Specimen of Salix alba L.Salix alba L.1916Drushel, J.A.

All 204 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Hope: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Feikert Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Holmes 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
Millers Corners1.7 miles16
Fryburg2.3 miles16
Calamoutier2.9 miles15
Bunker Hill3.5 miles16
Benton3.6 miles16
Berlin4.4 miles16
Martinsville4.5 miles16
Trail4.8 miles15

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 Mount HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6921276The 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 1065071. 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.