Bucks Mill, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Alfred quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Alfred quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Alfred quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Alfred quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Bucks Mill between 2002 and 2019, burning about 82 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:

• Chester
• Sumner
• Five Points
• Flatwoods
• Hemlock Grove
• Kingsbury

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Museums hold 290 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bucks Mill between 1831 and 1973: 255 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Carroll, G., Charles M. Roberts 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
	Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.	1899	Kellerman, W. A.	FLORA OF OHIO
	Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.	1940	Carroll, G.	Big Spruce Creek
	Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.
	Myosotis laxa Lehm.	1831	C. H. Jones	Orange Twp.
	Asplenium trichomanes L.	1840	Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard	Meigs County, Ohio
	Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1916	Nixon, E. L.	Pomeroy
	Noturus eleutherus Jordan, 1877	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township
	Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
	Noturus stigmosus Taylor, 1969	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Shade River, trib of Ohio River, at Chester, center of Chester county
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman	Middle Branch of Shade River, SW Orange Twp.
	Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Middle Branch Shade River, within Orange township, near Chester, Orange township

All 290 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1048564. 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.

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