Bays, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 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.

• 1901 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Bowling Green South quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Liberty township, in the words of 1897.

The county history of 1897 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 Bays between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 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:

• Arlington Woods
• Bassett (historical)
• Cygnet
• Digby
• Ducat
• Hammansburg

Every fire recorded in Wood County

Museums hold 630 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bays between 1901 and 1975: 596 Animalia, 25 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Bowling Green
	Aristida purpurascens Poir.	1901	William Kellerman	Near Bowling Green
	Phyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc.	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Bowling Green
	Uromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Bowling Green
	Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw.	1902	W.A. Kellerman	Bowling Green
	Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév.	1902	W. A. Kellerman	Bowling Green
	Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner	1915	Gilbert W. W.	Bowling Green
	Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)	1917	E L MOSELEY	BOWLING GREEN
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1918	E L MOSELEY	MILTON TWP
	Platanthera flava (L.) Lindl.	1926	E. L. Moseley	Engels, S of Swanton
	Scalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque, 1832)	1927	Finkenbinder, L.	Bowling Green, Wood Co., Ohio, USA
	Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1928	Moseley, E. L.	near Bowling Green, Wood Co., Ohio

All 630 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bays: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Wood County

The National Weather Service names Bays in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 1 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 Wood 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 1064394. 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.