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

Rock Hill, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Flushing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43977. The Survey maps it on the Flushing quadrangle.

Rock Hill within Belmont County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 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 Hill, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Rock Hill, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

5,223 words on this township

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Flushing Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Ginseng and snakeroot were commodities much sought after in those days. The former commanded 10 cents and the latter 25 cents per pound. Farmers' wives and children were kept busy gathering these roots, which were exchanged for powder and lead, the former of which sold for $1.50 per pound, and the latter for 25 cents per pound. It is needless to add there was no useless waste of ammunition in target shooting by the pioneer boys. Another commodity in great request was salt, which was brought on pack horses from Virginia, and sold for $8 per bushel.

Passage source: Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903.

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 Flushing Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rock Hill between 2003 and 2020, burning about 28 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
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
24 August 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15821
20 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15232
31 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1501
29 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15096
24 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8053
23 March 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8051

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 60 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rock Hill between 1899 and 1972: 41 Plantae, 18 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K. 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
Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	1 mile west of Hendrysburg.
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
Anas discors Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	Lafferty, Lafferty's Pond.
Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	Riker A. J.	Belmont
Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Notropis buccatus (Cope, 1865)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Phoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville
Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Stillwater Creek, 5 mi N of Barnesville

All 60 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Hill in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Rock Hill	-	A 911 Call Center reported numerous trees down in Flushing Township.
May 2025	Hail	Rock Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Belmont 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
Kennon (historical)	0.9 miles	13
Holloway	2.2 miles	14
Flushing	2.2 miles	13
Reynolds Road Cottage Area	3.7 miles	14
Golda	3.9 miles	14
Egypt	3.9 miles	13
Loghaven	4.3 miles	14
Belmont Ridge	4.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061620. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.