Alden, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1994

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.

• 1902 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Muskingum township, in the words of 1902.

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Alden between 2015 and 2020, burning about 19 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:

• Devola
• Locust Fork
• Churchtown
• Oak Grove
• Buells (historical)
• Rainbow

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Museums hold 1,329 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alden between 1853 and 1975: 1,233 Animalia, 50 Fungi, 44 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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
	Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.	1923	W.G. Stoner	Marietta
	Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.	1932	C. May	Marietta
	Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.	1932	L.W.R.J.	Nursery, Marietta
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1853	E. Andrews	Marietta, Ohio
	Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)	1879	W. Holden	Ohio River, Near Marietta
	Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1886	Georg Baur	Marietta
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
	Crystallaria cincotta Welsh & Wood, 2008	1888	Gilbert, C. & Henshall, J. A. (James A.)	Muskingum River, dst Beverly dam RM 24.8, 0.6 miles west of Beverly OH, Waterford township
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
	Notropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Beverly, Ohio
	Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.
	Pimephales vigilax (Baird & Girard, 1853)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Beverly, Ohio, Muskingum River.

All 1,329 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alden: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Chromium. 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 Washington 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 1057288. 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.