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.
Then and now
1912 to 1966The 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 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.
- 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
7,661 words on this townshipHistory 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.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
30 since 2004Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15815 |
| 14 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15810 |
| 20 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8566 |
| 27 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15200 |
| 5 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15583 |
| 28 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1089 |
| 20 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 285 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein. | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Hayden Falls |
![]() | Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1879 | Willard L. Maris | |
![]() | Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1879 | Porter, J.B. | |
![]() | Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860) | 1890 | Parker, J. B. | Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate |
![]() | Aesculus hippocastanum L. | 1892 | Collector unspecified | |
![]() | Cornus florida L. | 1892 | Collector unknown | |
![]() | Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak | 1892 | M. C. Ferguson | Gambier |
![]() | Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl. | 1892 | M. Warner | Gambier |
![]() | Oxalis violacea L. | 1892 | Collector unspecified | |
![]() | Polytrichum commune Hedw. | 1892 | not recorded | Gambier |
| Rumex acetosella L. | 1892 | Collector unspecified | ||
| Rumex obtusifolius L. | 1892 | M. C. Ferguson |
All 285 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Briar Hill Martinsburg Pit | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Darr and Hart Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Millwood Sand Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Millwood Sand Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sandusky Dock | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pipesville | 1 hurt, $75,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pipesville | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artanna | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Millwood | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Howard | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Hollisters (historical) | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Zuck | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Front Royal (historical) | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Esto | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bladensburg | 4.8 miles | 12 |
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.





















