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

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.

Cynthiana within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Cynthiana 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.

YearPeople Change
201068
202057-11 (-16%)

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 Cynthiana, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cynthiana, 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

23 since 2006

The 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 April 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15126
29 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11469
22 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources757
31 March 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 254 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Percina sciera, not of this specimenPercina sciera (Swain, 1883)1926EL WickliffSunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)"Big Cave", Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio
Vespertilionidae1927not recordedMurphy's Cave, Sinking Springs, Pike Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Clinostomus funduloides, not of this specimenClinostomus funduloides Girard, 18561929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Kincaid Creek, within Mifflin township (Kincaid Creek assumed), near Morgantown, Mifflin township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii Girard, 18501929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp
A photograph of the species Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, not of this specimenGyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)entrance to cave near Byington, Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio
Moxostoma duquesnii (Lesueur, 1817)1929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp
A photograph of the species Phoxinus erythrogaster, not of this specimenPhoxinus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Cynthiana, Pike Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus obtusus Agassiz, 18541929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930Trautman, 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 1997

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$10,000Numerous trees were downed across western Pike County.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$5,000Several trees were downed.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$5,000Numerous trees downed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$4,000Several trees were downed in Cynthiana.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$4,000A few trees were knocked down in western Pike County, along Pine Top Road and Long Fork Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$3,000A few trees were downed.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindCynthiana$3,000A couple of trees were knocked down.
September 2018FloodCynthiana-Multiple roads were closed due to high water, primarily across the western half of Pike County.

Every storm recorded in 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Spellman Crossing4.0 miles17
Newfain4.1 miles17
Lapperell4.8 miles17
Cedar Fork6.2 miles17
Byington6.5 miles17
Kincaid Springs6.6 miles17
Nace Corner7.4 miles17
Latham7.5 miles15

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 CynthianaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472977The 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.