Durant, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1994

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 Philo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Philo quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Philo quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Bloom township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886; History of Morgan County, Ohio, published 1886 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 13 fires within 5 miles of Durant between 2012 and 2019, burning about 23 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:

• Rokeby Lock
• Eagleport
• Joetown
• Airington (historical)
• Brill (historical)
• Deavertown

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 190 specimens collected within 10 miles of Durant between 1887 and 1974: 161 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas 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
	Cercis canadensis L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Gleditsia triacanthos L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.	1887	Morgan
	Leskea obscura Hedw.	1896	W. A. Kellerman
	Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)	1903	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Merulius incarnatus Schwein.	1906	Collector unspecified	McConnellsville
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Ricker A. J.	MCCONNELSVILLE
	Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)	1927	F. N.	McConnelsville
	Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)	1927	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Bezzia Kieffer, 1899	1927	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911	1927	not recorded	McConnelsville

All 190 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durant in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 flood, 3 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 Morgan 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 1048671. 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.