Smoky Corners, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Potato Knob. The Survey maps it on the Byington quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
17 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:48000
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Byington quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byington quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byington quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Byington quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
In the 1900 county history
821 words on this townshipThe county history of 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Franklin Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Franklin Township - 821 words.
Fires nearby
20 since 2004The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Smoky Corners between 2004 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 August 2007 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15796 |
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 719 |
| 24 April 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 47 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 756 shownMuseums hold 756 specimens collected within 10 miles of Smoky Corners between 1892 and 1971: 386 Fungi, 242 Plantae, 112 Animalia, 16 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. J. Sharp, Bartley, F. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn. | 1900 | W.A. Kellerman | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 1931 | 1927 | [Not Stated] | Beaver Pond |
![]() | Corticium ermineum Burt | 1930 | Hoskins, John Hobart | Near Beaver Pond |
![]() | Stigmella platani Fuckel | 1892 | Kellerman W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel | 1900 | Kern W. A. | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1900 | W. A. Kellerman | Mineral Springs |
![]() | Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1925 | Muegel, Harry R. | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
![]() | Cladonia cristatella Tuck. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
| Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge | |
| Cladonia uncialis (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg. | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge | |
| Parmelia Acharius, 1803 | 1925 | Braun, E. Lucy | Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge |
All 756 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locust Grove | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Bacon Flat | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Grooms | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Marble Furnace | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Pine Gap | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Louden | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Peebles | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Beaver Pond | 5.7 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikidata item Q122560994 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063024. 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.

























