The Point, Ohio

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, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of The Point between 2003 and 2020, burning about 134 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.

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:

• Barretts Mills
• Beaver Mill
• Carmel
• Coon Crossing
• Rainsboro
• McCoppin Mill

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 950 specimens collected within 10 miles of The Point between 1876 and 1975: 531 Animalia, 357 Fungi, 49 Plantae, 10 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14505, 14519, 14555 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
	Hericium coralloides (Scop.) Pers.	1939	Cooke, William Bridge	Seven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
	Phyllachora luteomaculata (Schwein.) Orton	1939	Cooke, William Bridge	Rocky Fork of Paint Creek at 7 Caves
	Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.	1947	Keuse, H.O.	Fort Hill
	Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link	1876	W. B. Cooke	Fort Hill State Memorial
	Andropogon gerardi Vitman	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Paint Creek
	Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	"Caves" Paint Creek
	Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Paint Creek
	Cardamine pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Paint Creek
	Cinna arundinacea L.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Panel Creek
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Careo, Paint Creek
	Diarrhena americana P.Beauv.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Point Creek
	Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.	1910	Hopkins, L.S.	Paint Creek

All 950 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of The Point: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Highland County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061216. 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.