Egypt, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 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.

• 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 Minford quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Egypt between 2004 and 2019, burning about 289 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Harrison Mills
• Wallace Mills
• Frederick
• Gephart
• Minford
• Pinkerman

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Museums hold 150 specimens collected within 10 miles of Egypt between 1885 and 1975: 93 Fungi, 44 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 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
	Bovistella Morgan	1885	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan	1893	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.	1887	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	unnamed	1897	Morgan	Preston
	Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA

All 150 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Egypt: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 1075786. 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.