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

Five Points, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Goshen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43044. It stands on Jumping Run. The Survey maps it on the Mechanicsburg quadrangle.

Five Points within Champaign County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 104 shown

Museums hold 104 specimens collected within 10 miles of Five Points between 1902 and 1973: 59 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 17 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Beattie R. K., Brodo, Irwin M. 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 ranunculi Schwein.Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Specimen of Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Specimen of Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) ArthurFrommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler
A photograph of the species Phragmidium potentillae, not of this specimenPhragmidium potentillae (Pers.) P.Karst.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Puccinia minutissima Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Puccinia myosotidis Tranzschel1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Puccinia nesaeae (W.R.Gerard) Ellis & Everh.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
A photograph of the species Macrosporium catalpae, not of this specimenMacrosporium catalpae Ellis & G.Martin1908Rogers H. C.Mechanicsburg
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1918Wing Seed Co.?Mechanicsburg
A photograph of the species Gibberella saubinetii, not of this specimenGibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1922Selby A. D.; Selby LinvilleMechanicsburg

All 104 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Mechanicsburg2.1 miles12
Crimville (historical)3.0 miles13
Fountain Park4.5 miles13
Brush Lake (historical)5.0 miles13
Woodstock5.1 miles13
Mutual5.2 miles14
Cable6.6 miles13
Middletown7.4 miles13

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 Five PointsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85761167The 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 1040481. 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.