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

Pigtown, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44615. It stands on Friday Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle.

Pigtown within Carroll County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pigtown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pigtown, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

19 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Pigtown between 2005 and 2020, burning about 56 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15271
27 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5385
1 May 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11625
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesRAVEN ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 268 shown

Museums hold 268 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pigtown between 1929 and 1975: 194 Animalia, 73 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.W. Cusick, Allen, E. J., Ash, G. (Gail), Buchanan, F. W. (Forrest W.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) 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 Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Indian Fork, Monroe Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hemidactylium scutatum, not of this specimenHemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
Pseudacris brachyphona (Cope, 1889)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris crucifer, not of this specimenPseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
Pseudotriton ruber ruber (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana sylvatica, not of this specimenRana sylvatica LeConte, 18251930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio

All 268 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 Pigtown: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous, Iron. 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
I J Smith ProspectIronOccurrence
Puskarich Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer
Puskarick Limestone Div. QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Washington Hall0.8 miles16
Rolling Meadow Acres1.7 miles16
Carrollton1.8 miles16
Toots Crossroads1.9 miles16
Becki Lynn Court2.3 miles16
Carroll View Terrace3.1 miles16
Heritage Hills3.3 miles16
Waterloo3.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049081. 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.