Elmville, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brushcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Setty Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sinking Spring 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
16 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 Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sinking Spring quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sinking Spring quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Sinking Spring 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
19 since 2005The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Elmville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1088 |
| 24 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 823 |
| 1 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15472 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 283 shownMuseums hold 283 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elmville between 1876 and 1975: 164 Fungi, 82 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner | 1913 | Bruce Fink | Serpent Mound |
![]() | Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm. | 1947 | Keuse, H.O. | Fort Hill |
![]() | Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link | 1876 | W. B. Cooke | Fort Hill State Memorial |
![]() | Polysporina simplex (Flot.) Vzda | 1926 | Muegel, H.R.(?) | east of Crooked Creek |
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.) | Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Hemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.) | Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818) | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.) | Fort Hill State Memorial, Brushcreek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Plethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 1938 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.) | Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Cynthiana, Pike Co., Ohio |
![]() | Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882 | 1930 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Serpent Mound, Bratton Twp., Adams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Serpent Mound, Bratton Twp., Adams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Eurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818) | 1930 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Serpent Mound, Bratton Twp., Adams Co., Ohio |
All 283 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gall (historical) | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| North Uniontown | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Turkey | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Sinking Spring | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Lincolnville | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Belfast | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Harriett | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Marshall | 6.2 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048705. 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.



























