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

Summit, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Starr Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45654. It stands on Tick Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Union Furnace quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Summit within Hocking County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Summit (historical), surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Summit (historical), surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

50 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Summit (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning18
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Other causes6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestLABOR FIRE
24 August 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresWayne National ForestLAUREL FIRE
8 July 2007Recreation and ceremony11 acresWayne National ForestTICK RIDGE FIRE
16 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestUNO FIRE
15 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestTRES FIRE
12 July 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestTODD FIRE
7 June 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBEACH FIRE
5 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestUNION FURNACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,189 shown

Museums hold 2,189 specimens collected within 10 miles of Summit (historical) between 1874 and 1975: 1,513 Animalia, 386 Plantae, 242 Fungi, 34 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A VERWYST, A. N. Bragg 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 Phyllachora junci, not of this specimenPhyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel1901W. A. K.; Kern E. H.New Plymouth
A photograph of the species Puccinia helianthi, not of this specimenPuccinia helianthi Schwein.1901W. A. KellermanNew Plymouth
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
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B. (Robert B.)Old Man's Cave, Benton Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Microtus pinetorum, not of this specimenMicrotus pinetorum (Le Conte, 1830)1927Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Goodhope Twp. Neotoma, Hocking Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Hocking River, within Falls township, near Logan, Falls township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Hocking River tributary, adjacent SR 664, near Logan OH, Falls township
Compsothlypis Cabanis, 18511928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA

All 2,189 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Summit (historical): 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Glen Gery Brick PlantBrick ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Nutter Bros PitClay, CoalProducer
Lake Hope Asphalt S&G IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muskingum River Grav. Plant 8 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Starr2.2 miles16
Union Furnace2.3 miles16
Coonville2.3 miles16
Haydenville4.0 miles16
Ewing5.0 miles15
Ilesboro5.1 miles15
Smock (historical)7.3 miles15
South Logan7.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067407. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.