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

Mount Union, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mechanic Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44654. It stands on Bucks Run. The Survey maps it on the Killbuck quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mount Union within Holmes County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 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 Union (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mount Union (historical), surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

19 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Mount Union (historical) between 2004 and 2020, burning about 38 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4189
27 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3607
4 March 2018Debris and open burning5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13986

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 154 shown

Museums hold 154 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Union (historical) between 1890 and 1974: 116 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, Alleshonse? O. C. 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 Uromyces asclepiadis CookeUromyces asclepiadis Cooke1895W.A. KellermanKillbuck
Specimen of Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.1914Drushel, J.A.
Specimen of Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1914Drushel, J.A.
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 Laestadia bidwellii, not of this specimenLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1906Alleshouse O. C.New Bedford
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1906Alleshonse? O. C.New Bedford
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
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck

All 154 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
Grade (historical)3.6 miles17
Becks Mills4.9 miles14
Killbuck5.2 miles17
Saltillo5.3 miles16
Millersburg6.8 miles17
Charm7.1 miles16
Welcome8.9 miles12
Berlin9.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056067. 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.