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

Wacker Heights, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43130. It stands on Waterworks Hill. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle.

Wacker Heights within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wacker Heights, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of Wacker Heights, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Pleasant township, in the words of 1901.

1901, Pleasant Township

Conclusion

To the aged citizens of Fairfield County; to the middleaged ; and to the young, I address some closing thoughts and reflections. We are approaching the point now where, as authors sometimes say, we must part. But you and I, dear reader, will not part. You have kept my company in my pilgrimage back through the decades of years, to where this now fertile and rich valley and its adjacent country was, to use an expression mo're familar to the ear than comprehended b}^ the mind, a howling wilderness where "nothing dwelt but beasts of prey, or men as fierce and wild as they." Together we have stood mentally in the wilds of the unbroken forests of the Hocking Valley, and on Mount Pleasant's lofty summit, and listened to the discordant yells of the untutored savage, the screaming panther, the howling wolf, the barking fox, and the doleful hooting of the big owl, before the first dawnings of civilization shed their cheering rays over scenes that "long in darkness lay." But we stood on the boundaries of a barren waste of desert; a desert into which no Anglo-Saxon ej'e ever peered - the desert of the past unknown and unnumbered years, for there was nothing to mark the drifting centuries.

Read the rest of this passage

In the 1901 county history

16,874 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pleasant Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pleasant Township - 16,874 words.

Fires nearby

7 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wacker Heights between 2012 and 2020, burning about 11 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	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15338
5 July 2020	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15801
16 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15761
5 April 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	7.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	742
9 March 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 March 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15458
19 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	524

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,158 shown

Museums hold 2,158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wacker Heights between 1839 and 1975: 1,528 Animalia, 394 Fungi, 222 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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
Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829	1890	Detmers, Freda	Sugar Grove
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	M. Craig	Sugar Grove
Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.	1841	not recorded
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs	1841	W. S. Sullivant
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1842	W. S. Sullivant

All 2,158 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Wacker Heights: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Blazer Plant A-1 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brewer Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Febus Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Igel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Morris Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Morris Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stump Hollow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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
Lancaster	2.3 miles	13
Carpenters Addition	2.6 miles	13
Tarhe Town (historical)	2.7 miles	13
Sandstone (historical)	2.7 miles	13
Whites	2.7 miles	13
Dumontville	3.1 miles	12
Colonial Estates	3.7 miles	12
Colfax	4.0 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122550440

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049283. 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.