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

Rockhouse, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Laurel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43135. It stands on Barringer Ridge. The Survey maps it on the South Bloomingville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rockhouse within Hocking County

Then and now

1910 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rockhouse (historical), surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Rockhouse (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

15 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Rockhouse (historical) between 2013 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1426
3 May 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1425
24 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15489
12 March 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11065
1 March 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,741 shown

Museums hold 3,741 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rockhouse (historical) between 1839 and 1975: 2,492 Animalia, 693 Plantae, 502 Fungi, 34 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 9 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.

All 3,741 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mound Crossing0.9 miles13
Gibisonville2.6 miles15
South Perry3.0 miles15
Blackburn (historical)3.6 miles13
Pursell (historical)3.8 miles15
Buena Vista4.9 miles13
South Bloomingville5.3 miles15
Haynes5.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061271. 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.