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New Pittsburgh, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Richmond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44890. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle.

New Pittsburgh within Huron County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Pittsburgh, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Pittsburgh, surveyed 1915

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.

In the 1896 county history

1,220 words on this township

The county history of 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Richmond Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Richmond Township - 1,220 words.

Fires nearby

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Pittsburgh between 2002 and 2002, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
29 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 169 shown

Museums hold 169 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Pittsburgh between 1885 and 1974: 117 Plantae, 24 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 14 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, C. E. Jennings, Creamer, D. 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 Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 1876Hemiarcyria stipata (Schwein.) Rostaf., 18761885A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum inaequale Peck, 1878Physarum inaequale Peck, 18781885A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 1873Chondrioderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Rostaf., 18731886A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Trichia proximella P.Karst., 1879Trichia proximella P.Karst., 18791889A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 1792Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) J.F.Gmel., 17921889A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 1899Didymium melanospermum (Pers.) T.Macbr., 18991890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 1876Physarum ellipsosporum Rostaf., 18761890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum relatum Morgan, 1896Physarum relatum Morgan, 18961890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Calonema aureum Morgan, 1893Calonema aureum Morgan, 18931891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Didymium eximium Peck, 1878Didymium eximium Peck, 18781891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 1805Physarum compressum Alb. & Schwein., 18051891A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 1805Physarum sulphureum Alb. & Schwein., 18051891A. P. MorganPreston

All 169 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of New Pittsburgh: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Montgomery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Montgomery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plymouth Sand and Gravel-Huron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Huron 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
Celeryville2.3 miles13
Plymouth3.4 miles13
New Haven3.6 miles13
Coble Village3.9 miles13
Willard4.0 miles13
Centerton6.2 miles12
Relief (historical)6.4 miles12
Delphi7.0 miles13

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 Q122541469The 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 1065131. 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.