Benton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 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.

• 1915 USGS Millersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Millersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Millersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Berlin quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Benton between 2005 and 2018, burning about 11 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:

• Martinsville
• Fryburg
• Huston (historical)
• Berlin
• Holmesville
• Bunker Hill

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Museums hold 221 specimens collected within 10 miles of Benton between 1890 and 1974: 185 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, B. Fink 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
	Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1896	Wetzstein, A.	Fryburg
	Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
	Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind	1914	B. Fink
	Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Collector(s): unknown	Millesburg
	Arachnion album Schwein.	1893	A. P. Morgan
	Schizophyllum commune Fr.	1901	A. D. Selby	Millersburg
	Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
	Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
	Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
	Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
	Quercus rubra L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.
	Salix alba L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.

All 221 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Benton: 9 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General. 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 Holmes County

The National Weather Service names Benton in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Holmes 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 1064414. 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.