New Plymouth, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45654. It stands on West Branch Raccoon Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Plymouth quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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.
- 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
11 since 2011The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of New Plymouth between 2011 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15791 |
| 7 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1242 |
| 2 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12125 |
| 9 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 April 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 March 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 584 |
| 21 March 2014 | 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 575 shownMuseums hold 575 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Plymouth between 1900 and 1975: 458 Animalia, 71 Fungi, 45 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Arden R. Gaufin, C F WALKER AND F B CHAPMAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr | 1936 | C. C. Green | Waterloo State Forest |
![]() | Acordulecera dorsalis | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Acordulecera mellina | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
| Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
![]() | Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States |
| Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Argyra minuta Loew, 1861 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892) | 1900 | Hine | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Calobata antennaepes Say, 1823 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Capnochroa LeConte, 1862 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Cephalops Fallén, 1810 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
All 575 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
5 since 2000The National Weather Service names New Plymouth in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Plymouth | $10,000 | Several large trees were blown down. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Plymouth | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down along State Route 56 near New Plymouth. |
| April 2025 | Flood | New Plymouth | - | Portions of State Route 56 were closed due to flooding. |
| April 2024 | Flood | New Plymouth | - | Flooding led to road closures on sections of State Routes 56, 160, and 278. |
| March 2011 | Hail | New Plymouth | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076509. 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.



















