Carter, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 2002

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 New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS Rinard Mills quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Carter (historical) between 2001 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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:

• Muskingum (historical)
• Bloomfield
• Hohman
• Wingett Run
• Dalzell
• Germantown

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Museums hold 136 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carter (historical) between 1853 and 1975: 118 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Wood & Tilley, S. G., Albert Hazen Wright, Archer, W. A. 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
	Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)	1883	Albert Hazen Wright	Marietta
	Alternaria solani Sorauer	1905	Post A. Lee	Long Reach
	Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.	1928	Archer, W. A.	Greenbrier
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	E Fork of Duck Creek, trib of Duck Creek, wtihin 0.5 mi of mouth, Salem Twp
	Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township

All 136 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 1050686. 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.