Rocky Fork, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1966

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.

• 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Fork between 2014 and 2020, burning about 30 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hickman
• Long Run (historical)
• Purity
• Rain Rock
• Tilton Crossroads
• Fallsburg

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Museums hold 734 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rocky Fork between 1893 and 1975: 677 Animalia, 44 Fungi, 13 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.	1893	Jones, H.L.	Toboso
	Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.	1922	E. B.	Newark
	Puccinia asteris Duby	1922	E. Bartholomew
	Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.	1894	Bogue, E.E.	Black Hand
	Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Mills, W. C.	Mt. Vernon, 1 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Lysimachia quadriflora Sims	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Smilax herbacea L.	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Anas discors Linnaeus, 1766	1896	E. B. Williamson	Licking Reservoir
	Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1896	Parker, J. B.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Chara contraria Kütz.	1897	E. B. Williamson	Newark
	Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1897	Parker, J. D.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA

All 734 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057964. 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.