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

Reeds, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43152. It stands on Blue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Laurelville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Reeds within Hocking County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Reeds (historical), surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Reeds (historical), surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

14 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Reeds (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 10 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	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 May 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1425
13 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1024
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4088
31 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4089
14 March 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15115
14 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	SPICE LICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,653 shown

Museums hold 1,653 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reeds (historical) between 1911 and 1975: 1,007 Animalia, 326 Fungi, 299 Plantae, 11 Bacteria, 5 Protozoa, 5 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
Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	Bales, B. R.	1 mi W of South Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
Eratoneura hartii (Gillette, 1898)	1915	Dwight Moore DeLong
unnamed	1918	Bruce Fink	in a wood near Old Man's Cave [Hocking State Park], Hocking county, Ohio
Bacidia schweinitzii (E.Michener) A.Schneider	1918	B. Fink	Old Man's Cave
Buellia curtisii (Tuck.) Imshaug	1918	Fink, B.	Old Mans Cave
Cladina arbuscula (Wallr.) Hale & W.L.Culb.	1918	Bruce Fink	Cantwell Cliffs
Peltigera polydactylon (Neck.) Hoffm.	1918	Bruce Fink	Near Old Man's Cave.
Pertusaria communis DC.	1918	Bruce Fink	Cantwell Cliffs
Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B. (Robert B.)	Old Man's Cave, Benton Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1927	MB Trautman	Salt Creek
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township

All 1,653 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
Nancy (historical)	1.8 miles	15
Haynes	2.4 miles	15
South Bloomingville	2.4 miles	15
Pursell (historical)	3.0 miles	15
Apple	3.4 miles	15
Rockhouse (historical)	5.8 miles	15
Cedar Grove	5.8 miles	15
South Perry	5.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067405. 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.