Ben, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 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.

• 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hanover quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ben between 2014 and 2020, burning about 16 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:

• Swans
• Boston
• Claylick
• Hanover
• Hickman
• Marne

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Museums hold 1,392 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ben between 1853 and 1975: 1,326 Animalia, 44 Fungi, 20 Plantae, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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
	Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.	1893	Jones, H.L.	Toboso
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Peronospora alta Fuckel	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	Mack, D. (Don)	Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789	1874	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)	1878	Savage, E. (Ed)	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789	1880	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Licking, Ohio, USA
	Anas acuta Linnaeus, 1758	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 1,392 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ben: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Licking 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 1057278. 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.