Elm Grove, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sunfish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45661. It stands on Carter Run. The Survey maps it on the Latham quadrangle.
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
15 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 Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 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
69 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Elm Grove between 2003 and 2020, burning about 148 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 | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9187 |
| 25 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15228 |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15227 |
| 27 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1343 |
| 6 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1342 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,485 shownMuseums hold 1,485 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elm Grove between 1894 and 1975: 1,311 Animalia, 125 Fungi, 44 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. Braun, B. Kondratieff 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium compositarum Rabenh. | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | Columbus |
![]() | Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | not recorded | Scioto River, Piketon |
![]() | Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 | 1909 | not recorded | Piketon, Scioto River |
![]() | Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 1855 | 1894 | Bean & B. Evermann | Scioto Creek, Coopersville, New York |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1894 | B. W. Evermann | Cooperville; Scioto Cr |
![]() | Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | Clayton, W. M. | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | not recorded | Waverly, Pike, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Poecile carolinensis extimus (Todd & Sutton, 1936) | 1898 | not recorded | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790) | 1898 | Clayton, W. | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Spizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1898 | not recorded | Waverly, Pike, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Toxostoma rufum (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
All 1,485 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
10 since 1998The National Weather Service names Elm Grove in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | $15,000 | A tree fell on the roof of a house along State Route 772, causing part of the roof and ceiling structure to cave in. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | $5,000 | Trees downed. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | $3,000 | A few trees were downed on Beavers Ridge Road. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Elm Grove | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elm Grove | $1,000 | A tree was downed across Beavers Ridge Road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Elm Grove | - | High water was reported on Chenoweth Fork Road. |
| July 2021 | Flood | Elm Grove | - | High water was reported on several roads, including State Route 124 and Beavers Ridge Road. |
| August 2019 | Flood | Elm Grove | - | High water was reported on State Route 772. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Elm Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Elm Grove | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennyson | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Hatch | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Stony Ridge (historical) | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Idaho | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Bethel | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Arkoe | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Ladd | 4.2 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064616. 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.


























