Bethel, 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 Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Madison County, Ohio : Its People, Industries and Institution with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Range Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bethel in 2011, burning under an acre 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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 125 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bethel between 1898 and 1972: 116 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brommer, R. & Moerchen, R. (Richard), Charles O. Wingo Jr., Dillon, T. (Terry) 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
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 323, 4 miles west of Mount Sterling
	Medicago sativa L.	1961	Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Roadside, dry bank 4 miles west of Mt. Sterling, Route 232, Madison County, Ohio.
	Trifolium hybridum L.	1961	Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Dry roadside bank, 4 miles west of Mt. Sterling, route 323, Madison County, Ohio.
	Ptilostomis ocellifera (Walker, 1852)	1898	Scott O'Dee
	Ichneumonidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Madison Co., OH
	Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)	Walnut Run, north Paint township, ~3.3 miles SW of London OH, Paint township
	Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)	Walnut Run, north Paint township, ~3.3 miles SW of London OH, Paint township
	Necturus maculosus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1929	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Oak Run, Madison Co., Ohio
	Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1938	R. Rhoades	Paint Creek, Paint Township
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township

All 125 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1054068. 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.