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

Pine Grove, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Elizabeth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45638. It lies in Fisher Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ironton quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Lawrence County

Then and now

1898 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 104 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 2002

Topographic sheet of Pine Grove, surveyed 1898

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

350 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 350 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,757 acres in total. None started naturally. 75 were 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	131
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76
Arson/incendiarism	75
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Recreation and ceremony	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Other causes	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4

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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	FALSE ALARM 09/09
8 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	GREEN GRASS
8 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	SR 93
7 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	11 acres	Wayne National Forest	WIND FIRE
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	JANIE FIRE
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wayne National Forest	BAILEY
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 September 2007	Smoking	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	PEDRO #2 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 394 shown

Museums hold 394 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pine Grove between 1890 and 1972: 279 Animalia, 61 Fungi, 53 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Avery W. B., Bartholomew E., Bartholomew Elam 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
Aecidium clematidis DC.	1896	F.L. Stevens
Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
Meigeniella hinei Coquillett, 1902	1899	[Not Stated]	Hanging Rock
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1890	Schneck	Hanging Rock
Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.	1892	W. C. Werner
Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1892	W. C. Werner
Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt.	1892	Carver Wm.	Ironton
Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.	1892	W. C. Werner
Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton
Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner
Frullania asagrayana Mont.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton.
Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1892	W. C. Werner	Ironton

All 394 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Pedro Mine & Mill	Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Brohard Pit	Clay	Producer
Maquette Cement Quarry	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pedro Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pedro Plant	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pinkston Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Pinkston Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Superior Plant & Quarry Cement	Clay	Producer
Superior Shale Quarry-Bear Run	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

3 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Pine Grove in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2010	Flood	Pine Grove	$2,000,000	During the heavy rain, 13 of the 15 fire departments in the county were responding to water related incidents. At least 15 water rescues were conducted by the fire departments and law enforcement. The county declared a local emergency. \|\|Throughout the county, 6 dwellings were destroyed, 8 had major damage, and 14 had minor damage. The Red Cross provided temporary housing to 6 families, while many other displaced residents stayed with family or friends. A large landslide damaged County Route 5 along Elkins Creek.
April 2011	Flood	Pine Grove	$100,000	Small stream flooding began Friday night the 22rd near Pedro then overspread much of the county during the 23th into the 24th. Symmes Creek was still flooding roads into Monday the 25th. Many roads were barricaded and closed. The emergency manager reported no homes were flooded. Damage was mainly to roads and culverts.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Grove	$500	Multiple trees were blown down in the Elizabeth township.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Royersville	1.5 miles	17
New Castle	1.6 miles	17
Vesuvius (historical)	2.0 miles	17
Lawco	2.2 miles	13
Lisman	2.3 miles	13
Pedro	2.5 miles	13
La Grange	2.9 miles	17
Etna	2.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076638. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.