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Pipesville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43022. The Survey maps it on the Martinsburg quadrangle.

Pipesville within Knox County

Then and now

1912 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pipesville, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Pipesville, surveyed 1912

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.

In the county-history sources

7,661 words on this township

History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Harrison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

George Lepley, another Pennsylvania German, was one of the first settlers, and is the oldest man now living in the township. He is the only one of the first generation that settled in Harrison, still residing here. He was born about 1790, and his wife who is but one month younger than her husband, is still living. Mr. Lepley came from Somerset county, Pennsylvania, about the ye?,r 1807, and first settled in Buder township, but removed to Harrison about 18 12. He served three months in the last war with England, but was in no engagements.

Passage source: History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Harrison Township.

Fires near this place

30 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Pipesville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
21 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15815
14 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15810
20 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8566
27 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15200
5 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15583
28 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1089
20 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 285 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 285 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pipesville between 1879 and 1975: 250 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 15 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson, Cobonus, Collector unknown 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 Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.1896F. L. StevensHayden Falls
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1879Willard L. Maris
A photograph of the species Gallinula chloropus, not of this specimenGallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Lampetra aepyptera, not of this specimenLampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)1890Parker, J. B.Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
A photograph of the species Aesculus hippocastanum, not of this specimenAesculus hippocastanum L.1892Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Cornus florida, not of this specimenCornus florida L.1892Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Cypripedium parviflorum, not of this specimenCypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak1892M. C. FergusonGambier
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1892M. WarnerGambier
A photograph of the species Oxalis violacea, not of this specimenOxalis violacea L.1892Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Polytrichum commune, not of this specimenPolytrichum commune Hedw.1892not recordedGambier
Rumex acetosella L.1892Collector unspecified
Rumex obtusifolius L.1892M. C. Ferguson

All 285 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pipesville: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Briar Hill Martinsburg PitFlagstoneProducer
Darr and Hart Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Millwood Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Millwood Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sandusky DockSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pipesville in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPipesville1 hurt, $75,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree on Grove Church Road east of Gambier. The tree landed on a house causing extensive damage and injuring an 83 year old woman inside. The woman was transported to a hospital for treatment.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPipesville-Multiple trees downed and minor damage to barn along Grove Church Road, between Lee Wolfe Road and OH Route 229, about three-miles southeast of Gambier.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Artanna2.0 miles12
Millwood3.8 miles12
Howard4.0 miles12
Hollisters (historical)4.0 miles12
Zuck4.4 miles12
Front Royal (historical)4.4 miles12
Esto4.5 miles12
Bladensburg4.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062942. 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.