Belfast, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1917 1986

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.

• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Belfast between 2004 and 2020, burning about 20 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:

• Fairfax
• North Uniontown
• Folsom
• Gall (historical)
• Harriett
• Berrysville

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Museums hold 796 specimens collected within 10 miles of Belfast between 1876 and 1975: 549 Animalia, 177 Fungi, 65 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A W SHARER, A. Braun 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
	Aecidium asterum Schwein.	1895	F.L. Stevens
	Puccinia podophylli Schwein.	1895	F. L. Stevens	Highland County
	Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner	1913	Bruce Fink	Serpent Mound
	Cordyceps militaris (L.) Link	1876	W. B. Cooke	Fort Hill State Memorial
	Dizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)	1921	Bucher & E. Ulrich	.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
	Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
	Cololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans	1924	M. A. Taylor
	Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1924	M. A. Taylor
	Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor
	Reboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi	1924	M. A. Taylor
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1926	not recorded
	Polysporina simplex (Flot.) Vzda	1926	Muegel, H.R.(?)	east of Crooked Creek

All 796 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Belfast in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 Highland 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 1060858. 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.