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 1913 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45672. It stands on Tick Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Byer quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Jackson County

Then and now

1913 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 67 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, surveyed 1980

Topographic sheet of Pine Grove, surveyed 1913

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jackson township, in the words of 1900.

1900, Jackson Township

Economic Value

The Portsmouth shales form the basis of the extensive paving brick industry in the vicinity of Portsmouth and Sciotoville. The quantity of suitable material in these beds is practically unlimited, as the shales have been attacked only at a few places along the outcrop. At present the mining is confined to blasting the shales from the sides of the hills, or to working the beds by short entries.

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Fires nearby

32 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 2006 and 2020, burning about 227 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 burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	5145
13 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 April 2016	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4511
21 April 2015	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1001
17 April 2016	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4571
16 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 932 shown

Museums hold 932 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pine Grove between 1878 and 1975: 474 Animalia, 412 Plantae, 45 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans 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
Calodon	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
Calvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
Houstonia caerulea L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.	1878	None	Hamden
Plantago lanceolata L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1915	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson
Trametes robiniophila Murrill	1916	MCCLEDROTLE G. A.?	Coalton
Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.	1925	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson
Coleosporium delicatulum (Arthur & F.Kern) Hedgc. & Long	1925	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson
Coleosporium helianthi (Schwein.) Arthur	1925	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson
Hypoxylon papillatum Ellis & Everh.	1925	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson

All 932 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
Leo	2.3 miles	13
Savageville	2.5 miles	13
Brocks Corner	3.5 miles	11
Byer	3.7 miles	13
Limerick	4.1 miles	11
Glen Nell	4.5 miles	12
Garfield	5.4 miles	14
Eastburn (historical)	5.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049082. 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.