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

Five Points, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 16150. The Survey maps it on the Orangeville quadrangle.

Five Points within Trumbull County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 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 1994
Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Five Points between 2020 and 2020, burning about 1 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 burning1

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
24 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15692

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 108 shown

Museums hold 108 specimens collected within 10 miles of Five Points between 1899 and 1969: 77 Animalia, 30 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Almon N. Rood, Brown, Fred, Conant, R. (Roger) & Murphy, M. K. 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 Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1917not recordedKinsman
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, at Kinsman, ~0.1 mi S of Kinsman, Kinsman township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus nebulosus, not of this specimenIctalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Lepomis Rafinesque, not of this specimenLepomis Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, at Kinsman, ~0.1 mi S of Kinsman, Kinsman township
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanSmall trib of the Pymaturning, center of Johnston Twnp

All 108 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
Orangeville1.9 miles13
Hartford2.6 miles13
Weldon2.8 miles13
Brockway (historical)3.5 miles13
Yankee Lake4.0 miles13
Burghill4.2 miles13
Antietam (historical)4.5 miles13
Walnut Hill (historical)4.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062766. 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.