Adams Ridge, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Ridgeville Corners quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Adams Ridge in 2020, burning about 8 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:

• Domerville (historical)
• Evansport
• Jewell

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 167 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adams Ridge between 1858 and 1974: 159 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Athearn, Herbert D., B. B. Kingsbury, C. E. Shoop 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
	Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1908	not recorded	Auglaize River, Defiance
	Trifolium subcaulescens A.Gray	1858	J. S. Newberry	Fort Defiance
	Moxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1860	unknown	Brunersburg
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1893	not recorded	Defiance, Ohio
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1893	U.S. Fish Commission	DEFIANCE, OHIO
	Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852	1893	P. Kirsch	Anglaize River, Defiance
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	not recorded	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Labidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio
	Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	P. Kirsch	Tiffin Rver, Brunersburg, Ohio
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Maumee River, Defiance, Ohio

All 167 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057287. 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.

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