Buena Vista, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1984

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 Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clearport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Buena Vista between 2013 and 2020, burning about 31 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:

• Blackburn (historical)
• South Perry
• Mound Crossing
• Laurelville
• Rockhouse (historical)
• Haynes

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Museums hold 1,928 specimens collected within 10 miles of Buena Vista between 1839 and 1975: 1,267 Animalia, 334 Fungi, 318 Plantae, 7 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. L. Welden, A. R. Gaufin, A. Schrader 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
	Aecidium galii Pers.	1883	Kellerman, W.A.	Amanda
	Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829	1890	Detmers, Freda	Sugar Grove
	Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	M. Craig	Sugar Grove
	Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
	Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda	1840	W. S. Sullivant
	Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle	1840	W. S. Sullivant
	Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.	1841	not recorded
	Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs	1841	W. S. Sullivant
	Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1842	W. S. Sullivant

All 1,928 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Buena Vista in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 Hocking 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 1062675. 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.