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

Lincoln Heights, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mansfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 44905. It stands on Touby Run. The Survey maps it on the Pavonia quadrangle. 1,039 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,285 feet above sea level.

Lincoln Heights within Richland County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lincoln Heights, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Lincoln Heights, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

3 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Heights between 2003 and 2018, burning about 3 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	3

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
3 April 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	13546

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 732 shown

Museums hold 732 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lincoln Heights between 1835 and 1975: 491 Plantae, 231 Animalia, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Berra, T. (Tim), C F WALKER, Chase, H. (Hazel) 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl	1895	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield.
Alisma subcordatum Raf.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Carex stricta Lam.	1835	Herb. of E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson,E. 5229	[USA, Ohio] Mansfield, Ohio.
Penthorum sedoides L.	1835	E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
Verbascum thapsus L.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Achillea millefolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Angelica atropurpurea L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield

All 732 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 Lincoln Heights: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Empire Steel-Cyclops Div/ Mansfield	Iron	Producer
	Richland Pit	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Richland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Colonial Hills	0.6 miles	14
East Mansfield	1.0 miles	14
Wooster Heights	1.0 miles	14
Mansfield	1.9 miles	14
Spring Grove (historical)	1.9 miles	14
Fleming Falls	3.0 miles	14
Midpoint Woods	3.0 miles	14
Roseland	3.3 miles	14

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 Lincoln Heights	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q35717235	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 1048920. 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.