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Piney Fork, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Smithfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43917. It stands on Henderson Run. The Survey maps it on the Smithfield quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Piney Fork within Jefferson County

Then and now

1901 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Piney Fork, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Piney Fork, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

10 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Piney Fork between 2003 and 2018, burning about 47 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12910
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3626
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 March 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources443
14 March 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 365 shown

Museums hold 365 specimens collected within 10 miles of Piney Fork between 1876 and 1972: 316 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 16 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Arden R. Gaufin, C.H. Kennedy 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
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Circus cyaneus, not of this specimenCircus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Ionaspis lacustris, not of this specimenIonaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni1893Calkins, W. W.Short Creek
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1902W. A. Kellerman
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Puccinia myrrhis, not of this specimenPuccinia myrrhis Alb. & Schwein.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1919Ortmann, Arnold ENew Alexandria
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills
A photograph of the species Taxonus pallicoxus, not of this specimenTaxonus pallicoxus1924C.H. Kennedy

All 365 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
Newell0.6 miles18
York2.0 miles18
Smithfield2.7 miles18
Bradley2.8 miles17
Herrick3.1 miles17
Greentown3.1 miles18
Adena3.5 miles17
Chandler3.9 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Piney ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7195618The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063420. 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.