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

Fivemile, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45154. It stands on East Fork Fivemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Orab quadrangle.

Fivemile within Brown County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fivemile, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fivemile, surveyed 1917

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 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fivemile between 2012 and 2012, burning about 0 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
18 November 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 266 shown

Museums hold 266 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fivemile between 1886 and 1974: 131 Fungi, 117 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, Arden R. Gaufin 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
Specimen of Fomes conchatus (Pers.) GilletFomes conchatus (Pers.) Gillet1934Kaps, C.Locust Ridge
Specimen of Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.1934Kaps, C.Locust Ridge
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Usnea subfloridana, not of this specimenUsnea subfloridana Stirt.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Lobaria pulmonaria, not of this specimenLobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.1924Braun, E. LucySardinia
A photograph of the species Sticta fuliginosa, not of this specimenSticta fuliginosa (With.) Ach.1924Braun, E. LucySardinia
A photograph of the species Septoria polygonorum, not of this specimenSeptoria polygonorum Desm.1925Overholts, L. O.Greenbush

All 266 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Fivemile in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
February 2008Thunderstorm WindFivemile$60,000Several farm buildings sustained significant damage just east and northeast of the village of Fivemile. A few barns were blown over and grain silos were destroyed. A number of houses in the area sustained damage as well, with several trees uprooted. Damage was determined to be caused by straight-line winds estimated at 80 to 100 mph.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFivemile$15,000A barn was destroyed and large tree limbs were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2016Flash FloodFivemile-High moving water had completely inundated Upper Five Mile Rd.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Upper Fivemile1.0 miles13
Centerville2.0 miles13
Greenbush2.1 miles13
Kirbyville2.8 miles11
Bloom Rose (historical)3.6 miles13
Chasetown3.8 miles11
Bardwell4.0 miles13
Crosstown4.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061071. 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.