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.
Then and now
1907 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
14 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.
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Coolville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
13 since 2014The 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 burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1861 |
| 9 April 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15150 |
| 9 April 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15139 |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15687 |
| 13 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15462 |
| 7 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15461 |
| 26 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15530 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 146 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt. | 1934 | Beckman, J.M. | Middle fork of Shade River, "Fossil Creek" |
![]() | Myosotis laxa Lehm. | 1831 | C. H. Jones | Orange Twp. |
![]() | Cynips Linnaeus, 1758 | 1928 | A. C. Kinsey | Coolville |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1931 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Noturus eleutherus Jordan, 1877 | 1932 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Shurrager, P. | Hocking River, near Guysville, ~2.2 mi SW of Stewart, Rome township |
![]() | Solidago flexicaulis L. | 1935 | C. H. Jones | Orange Twp. |
![]() | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township |
| Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1939 | Trautman, 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.
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.
























