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

Nipgen, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Twin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45612. It stands on Traub Knob. The Survey maps it on the Morgantown quadrangle.

Nipgen within Ross 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 Nipgen, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Nipgen, surveyed 1915

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

46 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Nipgen between 2006 and 2018, burning about 107 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
16 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5325
8 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 May 2015	Smoking	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1209
16 May 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4955
1 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 317 shown

Museums hold 317 specimens collected within 10 miles of Nipgen between 1874 and 1973: 276 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 12 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beattie R. Kent, Bruce Fink, C. Martin 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
Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger	1909	Henry S. Jewett	near Sulphur Lick Springs
Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.	1909	Henry S. Jewett	Sulphur Lick Springs
Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.	1914	Bruce Fink	Bainbridge
Euaesthetus iripennis Casey, 1884	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
Myrmedonia loricata Casey, 1893	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
Sceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801)	1926	ROBT ENDERS	3 MI N ALMA
Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Spruce Hill, Bourneville, Twin Twp., Ross Co., Ohio
Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)	Spruce Hill, Bourneville, Twin Twp., Ross Co., Ohio
Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836	1929	Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)	Bainbridge: Seip Mound, Ross Co., Ohio
Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882	1929	Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)	Bainbridge, Ross Co., Ohio
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1929	Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)	Bainbridge, Ross Co., Ohio
Lasiurus borealis (Müller, 1776)	1929	Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)	Bainbridge Seip Mound, Ross Co., Ohio, USA

All 317 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Minnehan Bend	1.4 miles	14
Harris	1.7 miles	14
Spargursville	2.5 miles	14
Summithill	2.7 miles	14
Pleasant Grove	2.7 miles	14
Storms	3.7 miles	14
Denver	5.0 miles	14
Dills	5.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065157. 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.