Ava, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 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.

• 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Cumberland quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Caldwell North quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Caldwell North quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Caldwell North quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Caldwell North quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Ava between 2009 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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:

• Belle Valley
• Coal Ridge
• Glenwood
• Hiramsburg
• Hoskinsville
• Scott (historical)

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Museums hold 84 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ava between 1902 and 1975: 68 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M., Adler, K. K., Tilley, S. G. & Wood 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
	Daedalea ambigua Berk.	1902	Lloyd C. G.	Glenwood
	Erysiphe polygoni DC.	1912	E. Bartholomew	Caldwell
	Apidae	1916	not recorded
	Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758	1916	not recorded
	Melissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825)	1916	not recorded
	Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Rana pipiens Schreber, 1782	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	near Derwent, Valley Twp., Guernsey Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	near Derwent, Valley Twp., Guernsey Co., Ohio
	Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898	1935	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	near Cumberland, Noble, Ohio, USA

All 84 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ava: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Noble County

The National Weather Service names Ava in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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 Noble 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 1056972. 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.