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.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1917 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Sardinia quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Mount Orab quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 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
1 since 2012The 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 November 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 266 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel | 1916 | A. B. Seymour | |
![]() | Fomes conchatus (Pers.) Gillet | 1934 | Kaps, C. | Locust Ridge |
![]() | Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm. | 1934 | Kaps, C. | Locust Ridge |
| Chordata | 1886 | Smithsonian Institution | ||
![]() | Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter | 1905 | Stephens J. | Mt. Orab |
![]() | Polytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot | 1915 | Fulford, Margaret | Blowville Flats |
![]() | Anaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain. | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak Creek |
![]() | Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak |
![]() | Usnea subfloridana Stirt. | 1923 | Braun, E. Lucy | White Oak |
![]() | Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Sardinia |
![]() | Sticta fuliginosa (With.) Ach. | 1924 | Braun, E. Lucy | Sardinia |
![]() | Septoria polygonorum Desm. | 1925 | Overholts, L. O. | Greenbush |
All 266 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 2008The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fivemile | $60,000 | Several 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fivemile | $15,000 | A barn was destroyed and large tree limbs were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Fivemile | - | High moving water had completely inundated Upper Five Mile Rd. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Fivemile | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Centerville | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Greenbush | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Kirbyville | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bloom Rose (historical) | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Chasetown | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bardwell | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Crosstown | 4.1 miles | 18 |
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.























