Pink, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45616. The Survey maps it on the Blue Creek quadrangle.
Then and now
1916 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Blue Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Blue Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Blue Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
4 since 2015The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pink between 2015 and 2017, burning about 1 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9145 |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 780 |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 712 |
| 6 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7094 |
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 705 shownMuseums hold 705 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pink between 1893 and 1975: 592 Animalia, 71 Plantae, 39 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A.J. Sharp, Braun, E. Lucy 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | Alum Rock |
![]() | Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Pond Creek, 1 mile Below Lake Shawnee, Nile Township |
![]() | Athripsodes Billberg, 1820 | 1942 | not recorded | |
![]() | Myelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale | 1893 | Jones, T.H.B | Otway |
| Calypogeia sullivantii Austin | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | Upper Twin Creek. | |
![]() | Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | Upper Twin Creek. |
![]() | Cephaloziella hampeana (Nees) Schiffn. ex Loeske | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | Upper Twin Creek. |
![]() | Jungermannia pumila With. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | Upper Twin Creek. |
![]() | Nardia crenuliformis (Austin) Lindb. | 1924 | M. A. Taylor | Upper Twin Creek. |
| Hymetta anthisma McAtee, 1919 | 1927 | Walson | ||
![]() | Notropis boops Gilbert, 1884 | 1927 | not recorded | Turkey Creek, Nile township, ~4.2 mi NW of Saint Paul, Nile township |
![]() | Physcia (Schreb.) Michx., 1803 | 1927 | Braun, E. Lucy | Beech Fork, Laurel Falls |
All 705 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Oyo | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| McGaw | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Lombardsville | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Buena Vista | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Henley | 8.6 miles | 12 | |
| Otway | 8.8 miles | 12 | |
| Pond Run | 9.5 miles | 13 | |
| Friendship | 9.8 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062941. 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.





















