Sinking Spring, Ohio

Sinking Spring fell from 133 to 118 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1986

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.

• 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:48000
• 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Sinking Spring quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Sinking Spring quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Sinking Spring quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Sinking Spring between 2006 and 2020, burning about 126 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lincolnville
• Elmville
• Turkey
• Coon Crossing
• Gall (historical)
• Beaver Mill

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Museums hold 292 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sinking Spring between 1876 and 1975: 164 Fungi, 91 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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
	Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner	1913	Bruce Fink	Serpent Mound
	Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.	1947	Keuse, H.O.	Fort Hill
	Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link	1876	W. B. Cooke	Fort Hill State Memorial
	Polysporina simplex (Flot.) Vzda	1926	Muegel, H.R.(?)	east of Crooked Creek
	Pipistrellus subflavus subflavus (F.Cuvier, 1832)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Foster, R. B. (Robert B.) & Hines, J. (John)	Dry Cave, Paint Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Dry Cave, Paint Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Dry Cave, Paint Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Dry Cave, Paint Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Hemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)	Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)	Fort Hill State Memorial, Brushcreek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Plethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 1938	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)	Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Cynthiana, Pike Co., Ohio

All 292 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065330. 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.