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

Vanderhoof, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Carthage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45723. The Survey maps it on the Coolville quadrangle.

Vanderhoof within Athens County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vanderhoof, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Vanderhoof, surveyed 1907

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

13 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Vanderhoof between 2014 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1861
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15150
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15139
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15687
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15462
7 March 2020Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15461
26 March 2020Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15530

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 146 shown

Museums hold 146 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vanderhoof between 1831 and 1974: 142 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, Beckman, J.M., C. H. Jones 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
Specimen of Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt.Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt.1934Beckman, J.M.Middle fork of Shade River, "Fossil Creek"
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Cynips Linnaeus, not of this specimenCynips Linnaeus, 17581928A. C. KinseyCoolville
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, not of this specimenGyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1931Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus eleutherus, not of this specimenNoturus eleutherus Jordan, 18771932Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Shurrager, P.Hocking River, near Guysville, ~2.2 mi SW of Stewart, Rome township
A photograph of the species Solidago flexicaulis, not of this specimenSolidago flexicaulis L.1935C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, at mouth, at Hockingport OH, Troy Township

All 146 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Lottridge2.6 miles13
Coolville3.6 miles14
Frost5.4 miles13
Hockingport5.9 miles14
Ireland6.0 miles13
Garden6.1 miles13
Youba6.2 miles16
Torch6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058097. 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.