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

Rockville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45684. It stands on Rock Run. The Survey maps it on the Vanceburg quadrangle.

Rockville within Adams County

Then and now

1919 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rockville, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Rockville, surveyed 1919

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 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rockville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9 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 burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
24 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 February 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 November 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 November 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	16008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 162 shown

Museums hold 162 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rockville between 1927 and 1975: 141 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.J. Sharp, Amrine, J. W. (James W.), Andrew White 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
Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 1799	1927	Watters, G. (George)	Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1927	Watters, G. (George)	Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1927	Walters, G. T. (George T.), Jr.	Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walters, G.	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Diadophis punctatus edwardsii (Merrem, 1820)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walters, G.	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Plethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 1938	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Pseudacris brachyphona (Cope, 1889)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart), Watters, G. (George) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
Pseudotriton montanus Baird, 1850	1928	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart), Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Walters, G.	1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio

All 162 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
Sandy Springs	1.4 miles	14
Stout	6.6 miles	15
Sunshine	7.2 miles	13
Squirrel Town	8.0 miles	15
Selig	9.5 miles	13
Grimes (historical)	10.6 miles	15
Tulip	11.1 miles	15
Waggoner Ripple (historical)	11.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061626. 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.