Artanna, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 1966

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.

• 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

The county history of 1862 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 23 fires within 5 miles of Artanna between 2005 and 2020, burning about 19 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:

• Bladensburg
• Front Royal (historical)
• Pipesville
• Esto
• Gambier
• Monroe Mills

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Museums hold 289 specimens collected within 10 miles of Artanna between 1879 and 1975: 261 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Cobonus, Collector unknown, Collector unspecified 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
	Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.	1896	F. L. Stevens	Hayden Falls
	Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter, J.B.
	Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)	1890	Parker, J. B.	Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
	Aesculus hippocastanum L.	1892	Collector unspecified
	Cornus florida L.	1892	Collector unknown
	Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak	1892	M. C. Ferguson	Gambier
	Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1892	M. Warner	Gambier
	Oxalis violacea L.	1892	Collector unspecified
	Polytrichum commune Hedw.	1892	not recorded	Gambier
	Rumex acetosella L.	1892	Collector unspecified
	Rumex obtusifolius L.	1892	M. C. Ferguson
	Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1898	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll), Williamson, E. B. & Parker, J. B.	Big Jelloway Creek, Big Jelloway Creek, Knox County, township n/a

All 289 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Artanna: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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 Knox County

The National Weather Service names Artanna in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 2 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 Knox 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 1056204. 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.