Bessemer, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 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.

• 1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Bessemer between 1994 and 2020, burning about 255 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were 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:

• Buchtel
• Doanville
• Kimberly
• Connett
• Nelsonville
• New Floodwood

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Museums hold 249 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bessemer between 1898 and 1975: 190 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolen, H. (Harold), Campbell, L. W. (Louis W.), Clifford M Wetmore 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
	Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood	1898	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
	Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1916	not recorded
	Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger	1919	L. Bonar	Glouster
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
	Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
	Synandra hispidula (Michx.) Britton	1939	F. Bartley	Along Ohio Brush Creek near Jacksonville
	Diploperla robusta Stark & Gaufin, 1974	1940	J. D. Walker

All 249 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bessemer: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Athens 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 1075351. 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.