Cynthiana, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45624. It stands on Core Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bainbridge quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCynthiana fell from 68 to 57 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 57 | -11 (-16%) |
Then and now
1915 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
17 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:48000
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
23 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Cynthiana between 2006 and 2020, burning about 71 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 | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15126 |
| 29 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11469 |
| 22 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 757 |
| 31 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 254 shownMuseums hold 254 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cynthiana between 1926 and 1975: 235 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Percina sciera (Swain, 1883) | 1926 | EL Wickliff | Sunfish Creek |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | "Big Cave", Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio |
| Vespertilionidae | 1927 | not recorded | Murphy's Cave, Sinking Springs, Pike Co., Ohio | |
![]() | Clinostomus funduloides Girard, 1856 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Kincaid Creek, within Mifflin township (Kincaid Creek assumed), near Morgantown, Mifflin township |
![]() | Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850 | 1929 | MB Trautman | Lapparell Creek, S Benton Twp |
![]() | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Lapparell Creek, S Benton Twp |
![]() | Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | entrance to cave near Byington, Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio |
| Moxostoma duquesnii (Lesueur, 1817) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Lapparell Creek, S Benton Twp | |
![]() | Phoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Lapparell Creek, S Benton Twp |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Cynthiana, Pike Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rhinichthys atratulus obtusus Agassiz, 1854 | 1929 | MB Trautman | Lapparell Creek, S Benton Twp |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Morgan Fork, within Benton township, near Morgantown, Benton township |
All 254 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
8 since 1997The National Weather Service names Cynthiana in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cynthiana | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed across western Pike County. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cynthiana | $5,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cynthiana | $5,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cynthiana | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in Cynthiana. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cynthiana | $4,000 | A few trees were knocked down in western Pike County, along Pine Top Road and Long Fork Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cynthiana | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| January 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cynthiana | $3,000 | A couple of trees were knocked down. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Cynthiana | - | Multiple roads were closed due to high water, primarily across the western half of Pike 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spellman Crossing | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Newfain | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Lapperell | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Cedar Fork | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Byington | 6.5 miles | 17 | |
| Kincaid Springs | 6.6 miles | 17 | |
| Nace Corner | 7.4 miles | 17 | |
| Latham | 7.5 miles | 15 |
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 Cynthiana | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3472977 | 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 1061013. 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.
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.


























