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

Mount Zion, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45679. It stands on Elk Fork. The Survey maps it on the Seaman quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mount Zion within Adams County

Then and now

1918 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 73 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 Zion (historical), surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Mount Zion (historical), surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

26,131 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Scott Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Scott Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

25 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mount Zion (historical) between 2004 and 2018, burning about 81 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	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
30 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9909
13 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	9916
4 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13965
9 April 2008	Natural	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 577 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 577 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Zion (historical) between 1866 and 1975: 349 Animalia, 146 Fungi, 64 Plantae, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist, A. J. Sharp 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
Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1879	A. B. Seymour	Adams County
Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W.A. Kellerman
Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
Clavaria formosa Pers.	1913	Fulford, Margaret H.	Adams County, Ohio
Collema fragrans (Sm.) Ach.	1913	Bruce Fink
Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.	1925	E. L. Braun	West tributary of Beech Fork
Crotalus horridus horridus	1926	Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)	Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)	1927	not recorded
Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1927	Muegel, Harry R.	Adams County, Ohio
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1927	Muegel, Harry R.	Adams County, Ohio

All 577 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
Seaman	1.0 miles	11
Mount Leigh (historical)	1.1 miles	11
Youngsville	2.1 miles	11
Irvington (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Buck Run (historical)	2.8 miles	11
Winchester	3.2 miles	10
Tranquility	3.3 miles	11
Harshasville	3.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055889. 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.