Elk Fork, 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 Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Elk Fork between 2007 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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:

• Red Diamond
• McArthur
• Prattsville
• Ural (historical)
• Vinton
• Dundas

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Museums hold 1,396 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elk Fork between 1878 and 1975: 1,261 Animalia, 69 Plantae, 65 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, 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
	Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr	1936	C. C. Green	Waterloo State Forest
	Houstonia caerulea L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
	Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
	Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.	1878	None	Hamden
	Plantago lanceolata L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
	Acordulecera dorsalis	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Acordulecera mellina	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891	1900	not recorded	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
	Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Argyra minuta Loew, 1861	1900	none specified	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States

All 1,396 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Elk Fork in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 4 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 Vinton 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 1075797. 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.