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

Kincaid Springs, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mifflin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45646. It lies in Shoemaker Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Byington quadrangle.

Kincaid Springs within Pike County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kincaid Springs, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kincaid Springs, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

62 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Kincaid Springs between 2003 and 2020, burning about 229 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5447
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15227
30 August 2007Natural1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15624
9 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15162
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 606 shown

Museums hold 606 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kincaid Springs between 1910 and 1975: 560 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 14 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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
A photograph of the species Setaria viridis, not of this specimenSetaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.1910E.A. KelloggJust south of route 32 on Laurel Ridge Road (County Road 27).
A photograph of the species Lycopus americanus, not of this specimenLycopus americanus Muhl. ex W.P.C.Barton1925Davis, H.A.; Davis, T.Elm Grove
A photograph of the species Percina sciera, not of this specimenPercina sciera (Swain, 1883)1926EL WickliffSunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Polysporina simplex, not of this specimenPolysporina simplex (Flot.) Vzda1926Muegel, H.R.(?)east of Crooked Creek
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)"Big Cave", Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio
Vespertilionidae1927not recordedMurphy's Cave, Sinking Springs, Pike Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Clinostomus funduloides, not of this specimenClinostomus funduloides Girard, 18561929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Kincaid Creek, within Mifflin township (Kincaid Creek assumed), near Morgantown, Mifflin township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii Girard, 18501929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp
Cyprinidae1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sunfish Creek, no precise locality data provided, 1.6 miles northwest of Idaho OH, Benton Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp
A photograph of the species Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, not of this specimenGyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)entrance to cave near Byington, Mifflin Twp., Pike Co., Ohio
Moxostoma duquesnii (Lesueur, 1817)1929MB TrautmanLapparell Creek, S Benton Twp

All 606 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kincaid Springs: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rogers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Rogers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Latham1.0 miles15
Lapperell2.1 miles17
Byington2.1 miles17
Newfain3.1 miles17
Cedar Fork3.1 miles17
Morgantown4.0 miles14
Arkoe4.3 miles15
Spellman Crossing4.5 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122593934The 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 1064938. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.