Alta, 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.

1915 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.

• 1915 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mansfield South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mansfield South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mansfield South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mansfield South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mansfield South quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1880 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 2 fires within 5 miles of Alta between 2002 and 2005, burning about 0 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:

• Mansfield
• Midpoint Woods
• Ontario
• Roseland
• South Boulevards
• Spring Grove (historical)

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Museums hold 728 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alta between 1835 and 1975: 491 Plantae, 227 Animalia, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Berra, T. (Tim), Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) & Berra, T. M. (Tim M.), Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
	Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
	Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)	1892	not recorded	Mansfield
	Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl	1895	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield.
	Alisma subcordatum Raf.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
	Carex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
	Carex stricta Lam.	1835	Herb. of E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
	Erigeron bellidifolius Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Wilkinson,E. 5229	[USA, Ohio] Mansfield, Ohio.
	Penthorum sedoides L.	1835	E. Wilkinson	Mansfield
	Verbascum thapsus L.	1835	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
	Achillea millefolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
	Angelica atropurpurea L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield
	Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1836	Wilkinson, E.	Mansfield

All 728 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alta: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 Richland County

The National Weather Service names Alta in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 Richland 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 1064314. 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.

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.