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

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.

Elm Grove within Pike County

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 Elm Grove, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Elm Grove, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

69 since 2003

The 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
28 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9187
25 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15228
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15227
27 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1343
6 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1342

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,485 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Clayton, W. M.Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Poecile carolinensis, not of this specimenPoecile carolinensis extimus (Todd & Sutton, 1936)1898not recordedPiketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Clayton, W.Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Spizella pusilla, not of this specimenSpizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)1898not recordedWaverly, Pike, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Toxostoma rufum, not of this specimenToxostoma rufum (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA

All 1,485 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

10 since 1998

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017Thunderstorm WindElm Grove$15,000A tree fell on the roof of a house along State Route 772, causing part of the roof and ceiling structure to cave in.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindElm Grove$5,000Trees downed.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindElm Grove$3,000A few trees were downed on Beavers Ridge Road.
June 2008HailElm Grove$3,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindElm Grove$1,000A tree was downed across Beavers Ridge Road due to thunderstorm winds.
February 2025FloodElm Grove-High water was reported on Chenoweth Fork Road.
July 2021FloodElm Grove-High water was reported on several roads, including State Route 124 and Beavers Ridge Road.
August 2019FloodElm Grove-High water was reported on State Route 772.
April 2015HailElm Grove-no account filed
May 2014HailElm Grove-no account filed

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
Tennyson2.3 miles15
Hatch2.7 miles15
Stony Ridge (historical)2.9 miles15
Idaho3.1 miles15
Bethel3.3 miles15
Arkoe3.6 miles15
Pleasant Valley3.9 miles15
Ladd4.2 miles13

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.