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

Rock Cut, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Muskingum Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. It stands on Symmes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.

Rock Cut within Muskingum County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rock Cut, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rock Cut, surveyed 1908

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Muskingum township, in the words of 1882.

1882, Muskingum Township

Sabbath School In Early Times

Archibald McCann was very devoted to the welfare of the young people of his neighborhood, and on Sabbath gave his whole time to teaching ; opening school in the morning, and continuing all day - in studying the Bible. Mr. McCann was drowned in the canal at Zanesville, on the night of March 2gth, 1839. The drawbridge had been left open, and, the night being dark, he did not discover it, and, walking off, fell into the water.

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Fires nearby

22 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Rock Cut between 2012 and 2020, burning about 24 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 burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15751
9 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15147
15 April 2016Smoking2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4328
9 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 March 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3546
29 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7667
24 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7485
22 March 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4031

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 932 shown

Museums hold 932 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rock Cut between 1866 and 1975: 681 Animalia, 223 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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 Scleroderris rubra MorganScleroderris rubra Morgan1891Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Peziza nana Massee & MorganPeziza nana Massee & Morgan1895Morgan, Andrew PricePreston
Specimen of Frullania saxicola AustinFrullania saxicola Austin1896William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Arabis hesperidoides, not of this specimenArabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray1866Day, D.F.Dresden
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella pinnata, not of this specimenPorella pinnata L.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylla, not of this specimenPorella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Lampsilis ovata, not of this specimenLampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)1893Smith, Herbert HAdams Mills, Barrs Mills
A photograph of the species Ortmanniana ligamentina, not of this specimenOrtmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)1893Smith, Herbert HAdams Mills
Specimen of Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) HumphreyPlasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey1898Selby, A.D.Trinway
Specimen of Lachnum viridulum Massee & MorganLachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan1905Morgan, Andrew PricePreston

All 932 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Rock Cut: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 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
Baker Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Baker Sand Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cox Gravel Co Plant No 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Seville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Seville Road Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Muskingum 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
Ellis1.5 miles15
Tremleys (historical)2.8 miles15
Gilbert3.2 miles15
Stringtown3.3 miles11
Drake3.3 miles15
Deadmans (historical)3.5 miles15
Terrace Shores3.5 miles15
Lower Dresden3.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062986. 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.