Bloomfield, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 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.

• 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1993 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000

History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Highland 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 41 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield between 2009 and 2020, burning about 147 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:

• Otsego
• Ferncliff (historical)
• Marquand Mills
• Norwich
• Sundale
• Adamsville

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,092 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloomfield between 1908 and 1975: 785 Animalia, 301 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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 amatrix Hübner, 1813	1954	Betty Dasch	New Concord
	Catocala cara Guenée, 1852	1954	Betty Dasch	New Concord
	Bubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1908	A. H. Wright	New Concord
	Medicago sativa L.	1911	Coleman, J.	New Concord
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1931	Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)	Perry Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1931	Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)	Perry Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1933	Hope, C E	New Concord
	Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)	1933	Hope, C E	New Concord
	Coluber constrictor flaviventris Say, 1823	1933	Hope, C.E.	New Concord
	Geothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)	1933	Hope, C E	New Concord
	Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1933	Hope, C E	New Concord
	Allocapnia recta (Claassen, 1924)	1935	H.H. Ross

All 1,092 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bloomfield: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 Muskingum 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 1064452. 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.

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.