Businessburg, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1988

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.

• 1905 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Businessburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Moundsville quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Mead 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 16 fires within 5 miles of Businessburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 76 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:

• Powhatan Point
• Steinersville
• Vadis
• Captina
• Vallonia
• Clover Hill

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,013 specimens collected within 10 miles of Businessburg between 1829 and 1975: 677 Plantae, 216 Animalia, 119 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. D. Selby & E. L. Moseley, A. D. Selby & J. F. Hicks 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
	Racodium E.M.Fries, 1829	1829	J.R. Paddock
	Usnea Dill. ex Adans., 1763	1839	J.R. Paddock
	Puccinia malvacearum Bertero ex Mont.	1905	J.L. Sheldon	Near Round Bottom
	Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.	1835	E. Wilkinson	Ohio
	Carex sparganioides Muhl. ex Willd.	1837	B. Frank	Ohio
	Carex × sullivantii Boott	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Ohio
	Homalothecium subcapillatum (Hedw.) Sull.	1843	D. Sullivan
	Euphorbia maculata L.	1844	S. B. Mead	Ohio
	Jungermannia sullivantii Austin	1844	W. S. Sullivant
	Carex gracilescens Steud.	1847	G. B. Ashcroft	Ohio
	Carex stricta Lam.	1853	E. L. Moseley	Ohio
	Cylindrothecium seductrix (Hedw.) Sull.	1863	D. Sullivan

All 1,013 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Businessburg: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Bituminous. 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 Belmont County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Businessburg in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 flood, 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 Belmont 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 1060913. 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.