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

Wilkshire Hills, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44612. It stands on Wolf Run. The Survey maps it on the Bolivar quadrangle.

Wilkshire Hills within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wilkshire Hills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Wilkshire Hills, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

In the 1884 county history

6,825 words on this township

The county history of 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lawrence Township covers historic grounds, an original township, justices, ' topograph v, first settlers, first schools.

Read the chapter on Lawrence Township - 6,825 words.

Fires nearby

19 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Wilkshire Hills between 2004 and 2020, burning about 59 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
26 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15797
12 June 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5025
5 May 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2015Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1105
7 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13148
18 April 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources802

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 349 shown

Museums hold 349 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wilkshire Hills between 1851 and 1973: 193 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cusick, A. Cibula, A. Cobula 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 Juncus tenuis Willd.Juncus tenuis Willd.1902Schaffner, J.H.Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
Specimen of Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.1902Schaffner, J.H.Brusk Lake, Champaign co., Ohio
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1936Heintzelmann, C.E.Camp Tuscazoar, Zoarville.
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Anemone canadensis, not of this specimenAnemone canadensis L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1851Wolle, J.Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
A photograph of the species Delphinium tricorne, not of this specimenDelphinium tricorne Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1851Wolle, J.Canal Dover
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum virginianum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum virginianum L.1851Wolle, J.Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1851Wolle, J.Canal Downs [Canal Dover]

All 349 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wilkshire Hills: 10 producers, 4 past producers, 2 plants. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Black Hawk MineClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zoar PitClay, CoalProducer
Zoar PitClay, CoalProducer
Belden PitClay, CoalProducer
Corundite PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Edgar Spring PitClay, CoalProducer
Fairfield Mines & MillFire Clay (Refractory)Plant
Fairfield PitClay, CoalProducer
Oster Sand & Gravel Bolivar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sandyville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Zoar1.0 miles16
Lawrenceville (historical)1.8 miles16
Bolivar1.9 miles16
Sandyville3.5 miles17
Dutchtown3.6 miles17
Zoarville3.7 miles16
Valley Junction3.9 miles16
Mineral City4.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1054346. 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.