Bethlehem, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1924 1992

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.

• 1924 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Prospect quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Prospect quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bethlehem (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Country Club Hills
• Eagle Creek
• Eaglewood
• Hunters Chase
• Lynn
• Newmans

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Museums hold 380 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bethlehem (historical) between 1892 and 1975: 368 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Acker, G., Baumgartner, L. 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
	Catocala habilis Grote, 1872	1959	not recorded	Camp Owens
	Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965	1964	J. Peacock	[Not Stated]
	Galium circaezans Michx.	1892	E E Bogue	Prospect
	Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Marion
	Helminthosporium teres Sacc.	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Prospect
	Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	MCFARLAND F. T.	Marion
	Photinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767)	1923	not recorded	Marion
	Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 1819	1923	Lyle D. Miller	Claridon, Lake Aquilla
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1924	Lyle D. Miller	Claridon
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Grand Twp: along Tymochtee Cr., Marion Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Montgomery Twp.: Tymochtee Creek trib., Marion Co., Ohio

All 380 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Bethlehem (historical): 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Marion 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 1070636. 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.