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

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.

Pink within Scioto County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

The 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 sheet of Pink, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Pink, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

4 since 2015

The 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 burning4

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
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9145
29 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources780
29 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources712
6 February 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7094

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 705 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897F.L. StevensAlum Rock
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1939R. RhoadesPond Creek, 1 mile Below Lake Shawnee, Nile Township
Specimen of Athripsodes Billberg, 1820Athripsodes Billberg, 18201942not recorded
A photograph of the species Myelochroa galbina, not of this specimenMyelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale1893Jones, T.H.BOtway
Calypogeia sullivantii Austin1924M. A. TaylorUpper Twin Creek.
A photograph of the species Cephalozia bicuspidata, not of this specimenCephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorUpper Twin Creek.
A photograph of the species Cephaloziella hampeana, not of this specimenCephaloziella hampeana (Nees) Schiffn. ex Loeske1924M. A. TaylorUpper Twin Creek.
A photograph of the species Jungermannia pumila, not of this specimenJungermannia pumila With.1924M. A. TaylorUpper Twin Creek.
A photograph of the species Nardia crenuliformis, not of this specimenNardia crenuliformis (Austin) Lindb.1924M. A. TaylorUpper Twin Creek.
Hymetta anthisma McAtee, 19191927Walson
A photograph of the species Notropis boops, not of this specimenNotropis boops Gilbert, 18841927not recordedTurkey Creek, Nile township, ~4.2 mi NW of Saint Paul, Nile township
A photograph of the species Physcia Michx., not of this specimenPhyscia (Schreb.) Michx., 18031927Braun, E. LucyBeech 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Camp Oyo6.2 miles13
McGaw8.2 miles13
Lombardsville8.4 miles12
Buena Vista8.5 miles13
Henley8.6 miles12
Otway8.8 miles12
Pond Run9.5 miles13
Friendship9.8 miles14

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.