Blue Ball, 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.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Mason quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Mason quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Mason quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 53 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blue Ball between 1879 and 1973: 34 Animalia, 13 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. C. Billups, A.R. Gaufin, H.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
	Adiantum pedatum L.	1929	?	Hueston Woods.
	Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Storeria occipitomaculata Storer, 1839	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Tropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell, 1856)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)	1880	not recorded	Monroe
	Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Monroe
	Physella gyrina (Say, 1821)	1898	A. C. Billups	Middletown
	Ascobolus aeruginosus (Oeder) Gillet	1920	Lloyd C. G.	Middletown
	Corticium Pers., 1794	1920	Lloyd C. G.	Middletown

All 53 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Blue Ball: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 Butler County

The National Weather Service names Blue Ball in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 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 Butler County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060884. 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.

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.