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.
Then and now
1914 to 1992The 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 sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1914 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
2 since 2002The 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 13 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 104 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium ranunculi Schwein. | 1902 | Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J. | Brush Lake |
![]() | Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel. | 1902 | Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J. | Brush Lake |
![]() | Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur | 1902 | J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler | |
![]() | Phragmidium potentillae (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1902 | J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler | Brush Lake |
![]() | Puccinia eatoniae Arthur | 1902 | J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler | Brush Lake |
| Puccinia minutissima Arthur | 1902 | J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler | Brush Lake | |
| Puccinia myosotidis Tranzschel | 1902 | Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J. | Brush Lake | |
| Puccinia nesaeae (W.R.Gerard) Ellis & Everh. | 1902 | J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler | Brush Lake | |
| Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr. | 1902 | J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler | Brush Lake | |
![]() | Macrosporium catalpae Ellis & G.Martin | 1908 | Rogers H. C. | Mechanicsburg |
| Erysiphe cichoracearum DC. | 1918 | Wing Seed Co.? | Mechanicsburg | |
![]() | Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc. | 1922 | Selby A. D.; Selby Linville | Mechanicsburg |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanicsburg | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Crimville (historical) | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Fountain Park | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Brush Lake (historical) | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Woodstock | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Mutual | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Cable | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| Middletown | 7.4 miles | 13 |
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 Points | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q85761167 | The 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.


















