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

Point Rock, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45710. The Survey maps it on the Vales Mills quadrangle.

Point Rock within Meigs County

Then and now

1905 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Point Rock, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Point Rock, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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

18 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Point Rock between 2013 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6060
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5506
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15781
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15198
6 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4253
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 144 shown

Museums hold 144 specimens collected within 10 miles of Point Rock between 1912 and 1954: 117 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. Mote 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
A photograph of the species Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp

All 144 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
Valley Ford3.3 miles13
Dyesville3.7 miles13
Mount Blanco3.7 miles12
Zeal (historical)3.8 miles12
Carpenter4.4 miles13
Martinsburg (historical)4.8 miles13
Dexter5.8 miles13
Salem Center6.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062948. 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.