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

Pine Grove, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Good Hope Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43149. The Survey maps it on the Rockbridge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pine Grove within Hocking County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pine Grove (historical), surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Pine Grove (historical), surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

24 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 79 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 burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
4 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8111
5 April 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7765
20 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7937
19 April 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15165
18 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7885
15 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7867
14 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7850
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7326

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,918 shown

Museums hold 2,918 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pine Grove (historical) between 1839 and 1975: 2,099 Animalia, 536 Plantae, 245 Fungi, 32 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. L. Welden, A. N. Bragg, A. Schrader 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.

All 2,918 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Rockbridge2.0 miles13
Enterprise4.4 miles14
Hide-A-Way Hills5.5 miles13
Blackburn (historical)6.0 miles13
Gibisonville6.8 miles15
Buena Vista7.2 miles13
Mound Crossing7.4 miles13
West Logan7.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067402. 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.