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

Zuck, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43028. It stands on Brush Run. The Survey maps it on the Brinkhaven quadrangle.

Zuck within Knox County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Zuck, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Zuck, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 county-history sources

9,843 words on this township

History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Butler Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Many of the first settlers engaged in the distilling of whiskey. On account of the low prices for grain and not much of a market for their productions, it was more profitable and convenient for them to convert their corn, rye and wheat into whiskey, which could always be sold for money, and was more easily transported.

Passage source: History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

Another mill erected about the same time was the "Giffin Mill," by Robert Giffin. They have long since been torn down. At one time a couple of pioneers, each with a peck of corn went to mill, put one of the grists into the hopper, turned the water on to the wheel, and started the machinery, but found no meal would come through; after much conjecturing and searching, they discovered a large bull frog in the hopper who placed himself in such a position as to prevent the corn from entering the buhrs. After his removal from the hopper, the grinding proceeded satisfactorily.

ler. One of his largest nurseries, located on Nursery Island, Mohican creek, was but a short distance from the line between Butler township and Coshocton county. He spent considerable time visiting the early settlers. He frequently stayed several days and nights at a time.^with the Rileys, Shrimplins, Staats, Carpenters and Benjamin Butler. They never charged him for his board or entertainment, and he was a welcome visitor at the homes of the pioneers. Apple trees originally procured from his nursery can now be seen in Joseph Staat's orchard, and various other orchards in the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Butler Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

31 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Zuck between 2004 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3

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
21 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15815
5 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8446
20 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8566
11 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8508
25 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 May 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15200
9 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 144 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 144 specimens collected within 10 miles of Zuck between 1890 and 1971: 113 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 13 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson, Collector unknown 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
Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.	1896	F. L. Stevens	Hayden Falls
Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.	1897	F.L. Stevens
Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)	1890	Parker, J. B.	Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
Aesculus hippocastanum L.	1892	Collector unspecified
Cornus florida L.	1892	Collector unknown
Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak	1892	M. C. Ferguson	Gambier
Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1892	M. Warner	Gambier
Oxalis violacea L.	1892	Collector unspecified
Polytrichum commune Hedw.	1892	not recorded	Gambier
Rumex acetosella L.	1892	Collector unspecified
Rumex obtusifolius L.	1892	M. C. Ferguson
Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1897	W. A. Kellerman	Brinkhaven.

All 144 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Zuck: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Briar Hill Brinkhaven Pit	Flagstone	Producer
Briar Hill Martinsburg Pit	Flagstone	Producer
Millwood Sand Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Millwood Sand Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Knox 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
Hollisters (historical)	0.7 miles	12
Oak Hill	2.5 miles	12
Millwood	2.6 miles	12
Umbria (historical)	2.9 miles	12
Esto	3.1 miles	12
Pipesville	4.4 miles	12
Buckeye City	4.7 miles	12
Danville	5.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063110. 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.