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

Wonder Hills, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Athens Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45701. It stands on West Branch Margaret Creek. The Survey maps it on the The Plains quadrangle.

Wonder Hills within Athens County

Then and now

1903 to 1980

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 Wonder Hills, surveyed 1980

Topographic sheet of Wonder Hills, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 Athens township, in the words of 1869.

1869, Athens Township

Utr Run

fired at and wounded the old bear, and then, wishing to see his dog kill one of the cubs, laid down his gun and. hissed his dog on to attack the cub - the old bear and other cub beating a retreat. Boyles, becoming interested in the fight between his dog and the cub, had approached near them, when he was disagreeably startled by seeing the old bear return, brought by the cries of the cub, and place herself between him and his gun.

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Fires nearby

16 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Wonder Hills between 2012 and 2020, burning about 24 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	6
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
29 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 June 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15783
9 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.7 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12805

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,272 shown

Museums hold 1,272 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wonder Hills between 1896 and 1975: 1,064 Animalia, 151 Plantae, 47 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813	1896	F. L. Stevens	Athens County
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.	1896	Selby, A.D.	Caananville
Aristida longespica var. longespica	1898	Selby, A.D.	Pleasanton
Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
Quercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.	1898	Selby, A.D.	Pleasanton
Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta	1902	Morse, M. (Max)	Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens

All 1,272 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clearview	0.4 miles	21
Pine Grove Heights	0.5 miles	18
Valley View	0.5 miles	21
Beachwood Lake Estates	0.7 miles	18
University Heights	1.0 miles	18
Rolling Hills	1.1 miles	18
Rolling Hill Acres	1.2 miles	18
Elliottville	1.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1083552. 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.