Decatur, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1918 1991

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.

• 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Decatur between 2003 and 2020, burning about 59 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:

• Neel
• Hiett
• Russellville
• Redoak
• Ash Ridge
• Stringtown

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Museums hold 144 specimens collected within 10 miles of Decatur between 1883 and 1974: 122 Animalia, 21 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, C CROFT 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
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	Kellerman W. A.	Cedar Hill
	Stictis Pers., 1800	1883	Kellerman W. A.	Cedar Hill
	Valsa ludibunda Sacc.	1885	Rev. C. H. Demetrio	(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
	Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Cercospora sordida Sacc.	1899	King H. B.	Ripley
	Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera peckii U.Braun	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera ravenelii Berk.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1930	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	near Ripley, Union Twp., Brown Co., Ohio

All 144 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Decatur in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 Brown 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 1064517. 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.