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

Prospect, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Prospect within Highland County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Prospect, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Prospect, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

5 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Prospect between 2004 and 2020, burning about 14 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 burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
19 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 March 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 March 2006	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 November 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15940

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 821 shown

Museums hold 821 specimens collected within 10 miles of Prospect between 1876 and 1975: 574 Animalia, 180 Fungi, 62 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A W SHARER, A. Braun 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
Aecidium asterum Schwein.	1895	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Highland County
Phyllachora luteomaculata (Schwein.) Orton	1939	14521	The Seven Caves, along the Rocky Fork of Paint Creek
Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link	1876	W. B. Cooke	Fort Hill State Memorial
Dizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)	1921	Bucher & E. Ulrich	.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Cololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans	1924	M. A. Taylor
Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi	1924	M. A. Taylor
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1926	not recorded
Notropis volucellus volucellus	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	water unknown, #1 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a

All 821 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Prospect: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Main Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Main Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ruggles Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Highland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Berrysville	0.5 miles	14
Folsom	3.2 miles	14
Harriett	4.1 miles	16
Marshall	4.3 miles	17
North Uniontown	5.1 miles	16
Belfast	5.3 miles	14
Hillsboro	5.3 miles	14
Rocky Fork Point	5.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058569. 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.