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

Summithill, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. It stands on Chestnut Oak Knob. The Survey maps it on the Summithill quadrangle.

Summithill within Ross County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Summithill, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Summithill, surveyed 1915

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

50 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Summithill between 2006 and 2020, burning about 106 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	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5325
24 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5287
7 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1204
16 May 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4955
4 April 2011	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 970 shown

Museums hold 970 specimens collected within 10 miles of Summithill between 1874 and 1975: 774 Animalia, 124 Fungi, 65 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Lincoln, Allen, J. (John), Atkinson, George 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
Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813	1895	F. L. S.	Ross County
Puccinia tanaceti DC.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Ross County
Puccinia violae (Schumach.) DC.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Ross County
Euaesthetus iripennis Casey, 1884	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
Myrmedonia loricata Casey, 1893	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1898	Seip, J. (John)	Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1901	not recorded	Ross, Ohio, USA
Lophophanes Kaup, 1829	1901	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Ross, Ohio, USA
Clitocybe cartilaginea (Bull.) Bres.	1902	Hard, Miron	Chillicoth
Cantharellus floccosus Schwein.	1903	Hard, Miron	Chilicothe
Favolus europaeus Fr.	1903	Hard, Miron	Chillicoth
Panus torulosus (Pers.) Fr.	1903	Hard, Miron; Troyer, A	Chillicoth

All 970 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Summithill in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Summithill	$95,000	The tornado initially touched down near a grocery store near State Route 772 and Valley Road in Summithill where several trees were knocked down and uprooted. There were several intermittent touch downs between Summithill and Denver. To the southeast of Summithill, along Schaffer Road, approximately six homes and two mobile homes were damaged and numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. An eye-witness on Schaffer Road reported a rope tornado which had several brief touch downs. Further southeast in the Denver area, a home received substantial damage with a loss of the roof and some walls down. Portions of the roof were thrown 700 yards and wrapped around trees. There was also widespread crop damage in the area. Two barns off of Denver Road were completely destroyed and uprooted trees were observed intermittently along this path.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Summithill	$1,000	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2021	Flood	Summithill	-	Harris Station Road was closed due to high water.
April 2025	Hail	Summithill	-	no account filed
July 1999	Hail	Summithill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ross 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Grove	1.2 miles	14
Harris	1.5 miles	14
Minnehan Bend	2.2 miles	14
Nipgen	2.7 miles	14
Spargursville	2.9 miles	14
Yankeetown	3.4 miles	14
Knockemstiff	3.4 miles	14
Newingburg (historical)	3.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070960. 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.