Big Prairie, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 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.

• 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Big Prairie between 2004 and 2018, burning about 18 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:

• Lakeland Beach
• Lakeville
• Miley Crossroads
• New Wheeling (historical)
• Spellacy
• Nashville

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Museums hold 102 specimens collected within 10 miles of Big Prairie between 1896 and 1975: 91 Animalia, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by D.L. Caldwell, H.H. Ross, Herbert H. Ross 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
	Agastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze	1896	not recorded	Lakeville
	Coreopsis tripteris L.	1896	Wilkinson, E.	Lakeville
	Decodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott	1896	Wilkinson, E.	Lakeville
	Polygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford	1896	Wilkinson, E.	Lakeville
	Pontederia cordata L.	1896	Wilkinson, E.	Lakeville
	Equisetum × ferrissii Clute	1908	Hopkins, L.S.	Lakeville
	Platanthera lacera (Michx.) G.Don	1909	Hopkins, L.S.	Odell's Lake
	Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1911	Hopkins, L.S.	Lakeville
	Carex comosa Boott	1913	Hopkins, L.S.	Lakeville
	Quercus imbricaria Michx.	1913	Hopkins, L.S.	Lakeville
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Bruce, J. A. & Bangham, R. V.	Killbuck Creek, near Wayne/Holmes Co line, 3.4 mi NW of Holmesville, Prairie township
	Ameiurus melas melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Bruce, J. A. & Bangham, R. V.	Killbuck Creek, marsh and stream near Wayne/Holmes Co line, 3.4 mi NW of Holmesville, Prairie township

All 102 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Big Prairie in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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.

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 1085453. 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.