Benwood, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 2002

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.

• 1905 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Benwood between 2016 and 2016, burning about 2 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:

• Alexis
• Antioch
• Dairy
• Foxtown
• Greenbrier
• Mechanicsburg

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Museums hold 656 specimens collected within 10 miles of Benwood between 1860 and 1975: 616 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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
	Taphrina sacchari Jenkins	1922	O.L. Inman	Antioch College
	Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.	1924	L.L. Lehman
	Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1929	Herbert R. Mooney	Woodsfield
	Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819	1860	unknown	Willow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
	Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1860	unknown	Willow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
	Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1860	David M. Dennis	3 mi. N Graysville
	Aralia racemosa L.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	New Martinsville
	Astragalus canadensis L.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	New Martinsville
	Desmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood	1877	Guttenberg, G.	New Martin[s]ville
	Sericocarpus asteroides (L.) Britton, Stern & Poggenb.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	New Martinsville
	Asplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	New Martinsville
	Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell	1879	Guttenberg, G.	New Martinsville

All 656 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Benwood in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 1 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 Monroe 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 1075349. 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.