Three Locks, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Chillicothe East quadrangle.
Then and now
1906 to 1980The same ground, surveyed 74 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
15 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.
- 1906 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Chillicothe East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
48 since 2005The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Three Locks between 2005 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 June 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,897 shownMuseums hold 1,897 specimens collected within 10 miles of Three Locks between 1874 and 1975: 1,408 Animalia, 398 Fungi, 80 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. C. Lincoln, A. Cronquist 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 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] |
![]() | Passiflora lutea L. | 1885 | Safford, William Edwin | Chillicothe |
![]() | Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle | 1896 | Selby, A. D. | Chillicothe |
| Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc. | 1896 | Selby A. D. | Chillicothe | |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm. | 1902 | Hard, Miron | Chillicothe |
All 1,897 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Three Locks: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pride | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Vauces | 1.6 miles | 15 | |
| Deadman Crossing | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| Rupels | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Schooley | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Massieville | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Canada (historical) | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Schrader | 3.8 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063057. 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.

























