Pincher, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Vinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45710. It stands on Perry Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Vales Mills quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1905 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1905 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
18 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Pincher (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 67 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5506 |
| 31 May 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1427 |
| 4 April 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15121 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11011 |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15691 |
| 15 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7898 |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11525 |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 542 shownMuseums hold 542 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pincher (historical) between 1900 and 1975: 497 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 22 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W., Atkinson 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 542 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vales Mills | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Arbaugh | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bolins Mills | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Prattsville | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Radcliff | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Oreton | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ural (historical) | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Knox | 5.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062148. 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.
















