South Point, Ohio
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Fayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45680. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Catlettsburg quadrangle. 3,836 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1901 to 1982The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresSouth Point fell from 3,958 to 3,836 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,958 | |
| 2020 | 3,836 | -122 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 printed 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.
- 1901 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
- 1913 USGS Ceredo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Catlettsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Catlettsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Catlettsburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
88 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of South Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | WAYNE AVE. |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ELIZABETH COURT |
| 20 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | RT 75 AND RT 52 INTERSECTION |
| 26 June 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8485 |
| 3 May 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BUCK HAVEN |
| 1 May 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | BIG SANDY RIVER ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 836 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 836 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Point between 1880 and 1972: 542 Animalia, 138 Plantae, 133 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., Avery W. B., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter | 1892 | W.A. Kellerman | Symmes Creek |
![]() | Eragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees | 1880 | T Meehan | |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Big Sandy River, near mouth |
![]() | Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs | 1892 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Coleosporium vernoniae Berk. & Curt. | 1892 | Carver Wm. | Ironton |
![]() | Dicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Ditrichum pallidum (Hedw.) Hampe | 1892 | W. C. Werner | Ironton |
![]() | Fissidens adianthoides Hedw. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | |
![]() | Frullania asagrayana Mont. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | Ironton. |
![]() | Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv. | 1892 | W. C. Werner | Ironton |
| Leucobryum albidum (Brid. ex P.Beauv.) Lindb. | 1892 | W. C. Werner |
All 836 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Point: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Sulfur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armco Steel/ Ashland, Ky. | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Ashland Oil/ Catlettsburg, Ky. | Sulfur | Unknown | ||
| Burlington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Burlington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Jerrys Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jerrys Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Kenova | 0.6 miles | 23 | |
| Clearview | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| Brookdale | 2.6 miles | 23 | |
| Montreal (historical) | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| Brayfield | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| Burlington | 2.8 miles | 23 | |
| Lincoln Park | 3.1 miles | 23 | |
| Sulphur Springs | 3.3 miles | 23 |
Elsewhere
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.
| Wikipedia article on South Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q280269 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065353. 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.




















