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

Bainbridge, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paxton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45612. It stands on Buckskin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bainbridge quadrangle. 765 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Bainbridge within Ross County

Population over time

2 figures

Bainbridge fell from 860 to 765 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010860
2020765-95 (-11%)

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bainbridge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bainbridge, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

Fires nearby

30 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bainbridge between 2006 and 2020, burning about 153 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2015Smoking1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1209
1 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2016Other causes5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4949
14 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 795 shown

Museums hold 795 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bainbridge between 1909 and 1975: 526 Animalia, 225 Fungi, 36 Plantae, 8 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14505, 14519, 14555 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 Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.JaegerRhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger1909Henry S. Jewettnear Sulphur Lick Springs
Specimen of Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.1909Henry S. JewettSulphur Lick Springs
Specimen of Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.1914Bruce FinkBainbridge
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1910Hopkins, L.S."Caves" Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Brachyelytrum erectum, not of this specimenBrachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cardamine pensylvanica, not of this specimenCardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cinna arundinacea, not of this specimenCinna arundinacea L.1910Hopkins, L.S.Panel Creek
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1910Hopkins, L.S.Careo, Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Diarrhena americana, not of this specimenDiarrhena americana P.Beauv.1910Hopkins, L.S.Point Creek
A photograph of the species Digitaria sanguinalis, not of this specimenDigitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.1910Hopkins, L.S.Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Diplazium pycnocarpon, not of this specimenDiplazium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) M.Broun1910Hopkins, L.S.Caves Paint Cr., E Highland Co

All 795 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bainbridge: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bainbridge QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Bainbridge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ross County

Storms nearby

14 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Bainbridge in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2006Flash FloodBainbridge$100,000Several homes were volunatrily evacuated along Paint Creek from Bainbridge to Bourneville due to rising water. Three automobiles were trapped in flood waters, requiring a water rescue from one of the vehicles near Chillicothe.
May 2011Flash FloodBainbridge$10,000Water covered roadways and caused some road damage due to heavy rainfall.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBainbridge$10,000A mobile home being towed on a flatbed truck on US Route 50 was destroyed. One home had its roof blown off, and trees were downed throughout town.
April 2007HailBainbridge$8,000A house also sustained minor roof damage.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBainbridge$5,000Several trees were downed in the Bainbridge area.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBainbridge$5,000Numerous trees knocked down
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBainbridge$5,000Numerous trees knocked down.
May 2009HailBainbridge$5,000no account filed
December 2014Thunderstorm WindBainbridge$4,000A few trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 2001Flash FloodBainbridge$3,000High water on roadways
May 1998Thunderstorm WindBainbridge$3,000Numerous trees downed.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindBainbridge$2,000Four trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds. These trees were primarily scattered across the southwestern portions of Ross County.
May 2011HailBainbridge-no account filed
June 2009HailBainbridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ross 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
Dills3.0 miles14
Humboldt4.1 miles13
Storms4.8 miles14
Spargursville5.5 miles14
Fruitdale6.3 miles13
Minnehan Bend6.4 miles14
Nipgen6.9 miles14
Harris6.9 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on BainbridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3451672The 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 1048477. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.