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

South Bloomingville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43152. It lies in Shaw Hollow. The Survey maps it on the South Bloomingville quadrangle.

South Bloomingville 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 South Bloomingville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of South Bloomingville, 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

13 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of South Bloomingville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 15 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 burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
3 May 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1425
10 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4089
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15115
14 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestSPICE LICK
12 March 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11647
12 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13265

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,775 shown

Museums hold 2,775 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Bloomingville between 1874 and 1975: 1,804 Animalia, 556 Plantae, 366 Fungi, 33 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 5 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Bonasa Stephens, not of this specimenBonasa Stephens, 18191874not recordedLancaster or Sugar Grove, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Stamnaria americana, not of this specimenStamnaria americana Massee & Morgan1894W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Agkistrodon contortrix, not of this specimenAgkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 17991910Fulton, B. B.Hocking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1910Bales, B. R.I mi W of S Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1911Bales, B. R.1 mi W of South Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Passerina cyanea, not of this specimenPasserina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)1911Bales, B. R.South Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1911not recorded2 1/2 mi E of Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cathartes aura, not of this specimenCathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758)1912not recordedCrane Hollow, 8 mi E of Haines P.O. or 12 mi SW of Logan, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Eratoneura hartii, not of this specimenEratoneura hartii (Gillette, 1898)1915Dwight Moore DeLong
Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1927Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bryoxiphium norvegicum, not of this specimenBryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.1927C. E. O'Neal
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate

All 2,775 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

21 since 2000

The National Weather Service names South Bloomingville in 21 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 5 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodSouth Bloomingville1 killedHocking Hills State Park reported that a tree fell onto a hiker in Conkles Hollow State Nature Preserve. The cause was estimated to be hillside instability due to several days of moderate to heavy rainfall.
June 2019Flash FloodSouth Bloomingville$50,000Narrows Road at State Route 56 was washed out. In addition, some trees were reported down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$10,000A tree was downed onto a home, causing damage.
June 2019Flash FloodSouth Bloomingville$10,000A portion of Narrows Road near the intersection with State Route 56 was washed out due to rushing water.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$5,000Numerous trees were downed in Hocking Hills State Park due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$5,000Trees knocked down across the southern part of the county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$3,000Several trees and limbs were downed throughout Hocking Hills State Park due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$3,000Trees were reported down across the county due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Flash FloodSouth Bloomingville$2,000High water was over several bridges near the Ash Cave Recreation Area due to heavy rain.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$1,000A tree was downed over the road at the intersection of Keifel Road and Big Pine Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$1,000A tree was knocked down along a portion of Thomas Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSouth Bloomingville$1,000A tree was downed.
January 2023FloodSouth Bloomingville-High water was reported along State Route 56 near South Bloomingville.
February 2021FloodSouth Bloomingville-Several roads were covered with high water in South Bloomingville.
February 2021FloodSouth Bloomingville-State Route 56 was closed due to high water between State Route 664 and Thomas Road.
March 2021FloodSouth Bloomingville-State Route 56 near State Route 374 was closed due to flooding.
March 2021FloodSouth Bloomingville-State Route 56 near State Route 664 was closed due to flooding.
March 2017FloodSouth Bloomingville-High water was reported on several roads across Hocking County.
July 2002Flash FloodSouth Bloomingville-State Route 56 was closed near Haynes because of high water. Several homes were evacuated in Laurelville, with many vehicles in the area under three to four feet of water.
June 2011HailSouth Bloomingville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hocking 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pursell (historical)1.5 miles15
Reeds (historical)2.4 miles15
Cedar Grove3.4 miles15
Nancy (historical)3.7 miles15
Cedar Falls (historical)4.0 miles15
Haynes4.4 miles15
Point Pleasant (historical)5.0 miles15
Rockhouse (historical)5.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076930. 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.