East Portsmouth, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 1981

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.

• 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS New Boston quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of East Portsmouth (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,836 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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:

• Eden Park
• Rosemount
• Dry Run
• New Boston
• North Moreland
• Sciotoville

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Museums hold 1,054 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Portsmouth (historical) between 1884 and 1975: 980 Animalia, 39 Plantae, 29 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1884	H. Mores	Scioto River
	Bovistella Morgan	1885	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan	1893	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819	1885	Ch. R. Orcutt	Scioto River
	Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.	1887	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.	1889	Craig M.	Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
	Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829	1896	not recorded	Scioto River
	unnamed	1897	Morgan	Preston
	Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
	Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA

All 1,054 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of East Portsmouth (historical): 4 producers, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Scioto 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 1067219. 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.