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

Pinhook, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Blendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43081. It stands on Cherry Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Columbus quadrangle.

Pinhook within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pinhook, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pinhook, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the 1858 county history

25 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Blendon Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Blendon Township - 25 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pinhook between 2007 and 2007, burning about 0 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 burning1

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
10 October 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,840 shown

Museums hold 3,840 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pinhook between 1804 and 1975: 3,517 Animalia, 210 Plantae, 81 Fungi, 31 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. J. Basinger 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 Sporisorium sorghi Ehrenb. ex LinkSporisorium sorghi Ehrenb. ex Link1900W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Ceratodon purpureus, not of this specimenCeratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.1840W. S. SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Podophyllum peltatum, not of this specimenPodophyllum peltatum L.1840Sullivant, W.S.
Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Anoectangium ciliatum, not of this specimenAnoectangium ciliatum (Hedw.) Schwägr.1842Sullivant, W.S.Columbus
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
Archidium ohioense Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 3,840 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
Huber Ridge1.1 miles14
Central College1.2 miles14
Gould Park1.2 miles14
Wildwood Springs (historical)1.2 miles14
Blendon Corner1.8 miles14
Minerva Park2.6 miles14
Cobblestone At The Preserve2.7 miles12
Albany Park2.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063421. 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.