Brocks Corner, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 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.

• 1906 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Richmond Dale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Richmond Dale quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Brocks Corner between 2005 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 1 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:

• Leo
• Limerick
• Oakland
• Pine Grove
• Big Rock
• Buffalo

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 813 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brocks Corner between 1916 and 1975: 421 Animalia, 371 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans, A.J. Sharp 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
	Calodon	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
	Calvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
	Trametes robiniophila Murrill	1916	MCCLEDROTLE G. A.?	Coalton
	Coleosporium viburni Arthur	1926	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson 7 miles Northwest
	Regulus satrapa Lichtenstein, 1823	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Canter's Cave, Jackson, Ohio, USA
	Bufo fowleri Hinckley, 1882	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Thomas, J. (John) & Pontius	White's Gulch, Liberty Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Thomas, J. S. (John S.) & Pontius, L. (Leslie)	White's Gulch, Liberty Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Thomas, J. S. (John S.) & Pontius, L. D.	White's Gulch, Liberty Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Thomas, J. S. (John S.) & Pontius, L. D.	White's Gulch, Liberty Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio
	Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Thomas, J. S. (John S.) & Pontius, L. (Leslie)	White's Gulch, Liberty Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio
	Pseudotriton montanus Baird, 1850	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Thomas, J. S. (John S.) & Pontius, L. D.	White's Gulch, Liberty Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio
	Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Thomas, J. S. (John S.) & Pontius, L. (Leslie)	White's Gulch, Liberty Twp., Jackson Co., Ohio

All 813 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Brocks Corner: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 Jackson 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 1070693. 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.