Benton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 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.

• 1906 USGS Sycamore quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Lykens quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Lykens quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000

History of Crawford County and Ohio : Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Crawford County ... Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Texas Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 111 specimens collected within 10 miles of Benton between 1932 and 1969: 107 Animalia, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by E. J. Palmer, H. Price, Leslie L Pontius; Floyd Bartley 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
	Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township, ditch
	Tramea lacerata Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township
	Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1932	Leslie L Pontius; Floyd Bartley	Benton
	Salix exigua subsp. interior (Rowlee) Cronquist	1933	E. J. Palmer	Along streams, 5 mi W of Bucyrus.
	Ameiurus melas melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek, Sec 18 of Lykens township, ~5.9 mi SE of Melmore, Lykens township
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek, Sec 25 of Texas township, ~5.7 mi E of Sycamore, Texas township
	Campostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek, Sec 25 of Texas township, ~5.7 mi E of Sycamore, Texas township
	Catostomidae	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek,~1.4 mi NW of Chatfield, Section 12 of Chatfield township
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek, Sec 25 of Texas township, ~5.7 mi E of Sycamore, Texas township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek, Sec 18 of Lykens township, ~5.9 mi SE of Melmore, Lykens township
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek, Sec 25 of Texas township, ~5.7 mi E of Sycamore, Texas township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1940	Volk, L. E.	Sycamore Creek, Sec 25 of Texas township, ~5.7 mi E of Sycamore, Texas township

All 111 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Benton: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 Crawford County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Benton in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 2 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 Crawford 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 1060863. 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.

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.