Elk, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 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.

• 1903 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Macksburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS Stafford quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Elk between 2020 and 2020, burning about 3 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:

• Cliffyville (historical)
• Flag
• Harriettsville
• Kilmer
• Middleburg
• Road Fork

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Museums hold 104 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elk between 1853 and 1974: 91 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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
	Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1860	unknown	state route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
	Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)	1883	Albert Hazen Wright	Marietta
	Trillium sessile L.	1884	None	Macksburg
	Colletotrichum trifolii Bain	1911	Scarberry J. J.	MACKSBURG
	Populus tremuloides Michx.	1922	Davis, H.A.	Marion
	Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio

All 104 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Elk in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 1 flood, 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 Noble 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 1075794. 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.