Colton, 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.

1909 1986

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.

• 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Mc Clure quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Colton quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Colton quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Colton quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Colton between 2012 and 2020, burning about 1 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:

• Liberty Center
• Texas
• Damascus (historical)
• Grelton
• McClure
• Shunk

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Museums hold 29 specimens collected within 10 miles of Colton between 1919 and 1975: 22 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Dabney Hart, G. Steyskal, Karl Schurr 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
	Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.	1919	W.G. Stover	Liberty Center
	Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Liberty Center
	Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz	1927	Moseley, E.L.	Wabash RR, Washington Twp
	Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	MB Troutman	Bad Creek, near and at border.
	Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1927	MB Trautman	Bad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co.
	Carpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Bad Creek, Washington Township, near Liberty Center, Washington township
	Eleocharis erythropoda Steud.	1927	Moseley, E.L.	Wabash RR, Washington Twp
	Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1931	Murphy, M. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Washington Twp., Henry Co., Ohio
	Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)	1935	M B TRAUTMAN AND ROGER CONANT	NEAR COLTON
	Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1935	M B TRAUTMAN AND ROGER CONANT	NEAR COLTON
	Clemmys guttata (Schneider, 1792)	1935	M B TRAUTMAN AND ROGER CONANT	WASHINGTON TWP
	Hemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)	1935	M B TRAUTMAN AND ROGER CONANT	NEAR COLTON

All 29 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Colton in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 Henry 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 1056826. 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.