Beals, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Pataskala quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1901 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 3 fires within 5 miles of Beals between 2020 and 2020, burning about 1 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:

• Pickerington
• Stoudertown
• Chevington Woods North
• Harley
• Baltimore
• Canal Winchester

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Museums hold 732 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beals between 1891 and 1974: 723 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brzoska, D., C. A. Petrovic, Caldwell 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
	Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
	Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.	1891	W. C. Werner	Carroll
	Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.	1891	W. C. Werner	Carroll
	Allocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924)	1896	not recorded
	Melissodes denticulatus Smith, 1854	1914	Fattig, P	Pickerington
	Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio
	Myiarchus crinitus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Violet Twp, Fairfield Co., Ohio
	Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Woods, Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio
	Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	in woods, Violet Twp, Fairfield Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Rock Mills, Greenfield Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio
	Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sycamore Creek, within Violet township, near Pickerington, Violet township

All 732 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Beals in 24 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 4 flash flood, 4 hail. 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 Fairfield 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 1048495. 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.