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

Mount Sinai, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45613. The Survey maps it on the Richmond Dale quadrangle.

Mount Sinai within Pike County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

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 Mount Sinai, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Mount Sinai, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

46 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Mount Sinai between 2006 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 1 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15247
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2015Debris and open burning13 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1323
6 May 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio 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 660 shown

Museums hold 660 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Sinai between 1889 and 1974: 460 Animalia, 199 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed) 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 Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Certhia familiaris, not of this specimenCerthia familiaris americana Bonaparte, 18381898Clayton, W. M.Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ceryle alcyon, not of this specimenCeryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-19941898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1898Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Waverly, Ohio, USA

All 660 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mount Sinai: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Morrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Morrison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Limerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Southern Silica Inc PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Southern Silica Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

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
Linn3.0 miles13
Cars Run (historical)4.8 miles13
Omega6.0 miles13
Beaver7.8 miles13
Robbins (historical)8.4 miles13
Beaver Pike Estates8.7 miles13
Bristol Village9.0 miles13
Givens9.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065076. 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.