East Clayton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 2002

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.

• 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of East Clayton between 1993 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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:

• Carbondale
• Nelsonville
• Bessemer
• Connett
• Doanville
• Hocking

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Museums hold 221 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Clayton between 1899 and 1975: 165 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 26 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, C. C. Green, C.C. Green 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
	Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr	1936	C. C. Green	Waterloo State Forest
	Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
	Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
	Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
	Neodiprion Rohwer, 1918	1915	not recorded
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1916	not recorded
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
	Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
	Synandra hispidula (Michx.) Britton	1939	F. Bartley	Along Ohio Brush Creek near Jacksonville
	Diploperla robusta Stark & Gaufin, 1974	1940	J. D. Walker
	Eccoptura xanthenes (Newman, 1838)	1940	J. D. Walker
	Haploperla brevis (Banks, 1895)	1940	J. D. Walker

All 221 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of East Clayton: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Coal. 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 Athens County

The National Weather Service names East Clayton in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 flood, 4 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 Athens 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 1075768. 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.

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.