Claypools, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1966

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.

• 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882; Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio; Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the County and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy Families and Individuals, published 1892 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Claypools (historical) between 2011 and 2020, burning about 79 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:

• Irville
• Nashport
• Pleasant Valley (historical)
• Cottage Hill
• Shannon
• Black Run

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 132 specimens collected within 10 miles of Claypools (historical) between 1893 and 1974: 107 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andreas, Barbara; Cusick, Allison, Bogue, E.E., Buker, W. 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
	Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.	1893	Jones, H.L.	Toboso
	Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932 (fossil)	1916	Wilber Stout	Vanport. Hopewell Township
	Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.	1894	Bogue, E.E.	Black Hand
	Lysimachia quadriflora Sims	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Smilax herbacea L.	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Davainea Blanchard, 1891	1912	E. Gay	Janesville
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1926	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)	Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio
	Coluber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1929	Goslin, R. (Robert)	Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio
	Natrix sipedon sipedon	1929	Goslin, R. M. (Robert M.)	Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	woods, S. of Licking River., Falls Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	woods, S. of Licking River., Falls Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Eurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	woods, S. of Licking River., Falls Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio

All 132 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Claypools (historical): 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Muskingum County

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 1054507. 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.