Charleston, 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 Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Londonderry quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Charleston (historical) between 2008 and 2020, burning about 416 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:

• Tucson
• Mooresville
• Poe Valley (historical)
• Feightner (historical)
• Jarvis
• Delano

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Museums hold 1,371 specimens collected within 10 miles of Charleston (historical) between 1845 and 1975: 996 Animalia, 275 Fungi, 95 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. Cronquist, A. Miller 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
	unnamed	1906	M.E. Hard
	Amanita strobiliformis (Paulet ex Vittad.) Bertill.	1906	Hard, Miron	Chillicothe
	Boletus L.	1906	Hard, Miron	Chillicothe
	Symphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom	1845	L. L. Pontius	3 mi E of Kingston.
	Passiflora lutea L.	1885	Safford, William Edwin	Chillicothe
	Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle	1896	Selby, A. D.	Chillicothe
	Phyllosticta pyrina Sacc.	1896	Selby A. D.	Chillicothe
	Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.	1902	Hard, Miron	Chillicothe
	Collybia velutipes (Curtis) P.Kumm.	1902	Hard, Miron	Chillicothe
	Geaster campestre Morgan	1902	Hard, Miron	Chillicothe
	Hypholoma sublateritium (Fr.) Quél.	1902	Hard, Miron	Chillicothe
	Panus stipticus (Bull.) Fr.	1902	Hard, Miron	Chillicothe

All 1,371 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 1061265. 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.