Alma, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1992

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.

• 1906 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Waverly North quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Waverly North quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Waverly North quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Waverly North quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Waverly North quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Alma between 2006 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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.

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:

• Antonis
• Massieville
• Denver
• Pride
• Three Locks
• Deadman Crossing

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Museums hold 678 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alma between 1874 and 1975: 565 Animalia, 80 Fungi, 27 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Lincoln, A. Cronquist, Adburing & Lowce 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
	Colletotrichum cereale Manns	1908	J. M. Van
	Euaesthetus iripennis Casey, 1884	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
	Myrmedonia loricata Casey, 1893	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
	Erythroneura beameri Robinson, 1924	1904	not recorded
	Mycena (Pers.) Roussel, 1806	1905	M.E. Hard
	Amanita radicata Voglino	1906	M.E. Hard
	Lachnocladium semivestitum Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1906	M.E. Hard
	Eriophyidae	1922	Adburing & Lowce	Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.
	Aceria eucricotes (Nalepa, 1892)	1923	Miller, A. E. (August E.)	Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.
	Aceria fraxinicola (Nalepa, 1890)	1923	Miller, A. E. (August E.)	Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.
	Aceria fraxinivora (Nalepa, 1909)	1923	Miller, A. E. (August E.)	Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.
	Aceria salicina (Nalepa, 1911)	1923	Miller, A. E. (August E.)	Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.

All 678 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Alma in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Ross County

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 1048454. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.