Ellis, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1994

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.

• 1908 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Muskingum township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Muskingum Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Ellis between 2015 and 2020, burning about 15 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:

• Rock Cut
• Spencer
• Stringtown
• Dillon Falls
• East Greenwood
• Gilbert

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 887 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ellis between 1866 and 1975: 668 Animalia, 194 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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
	Scleroderris rubra Morgan	1891	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Peziza nana Massee & Morgan	1895	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Frullania saxicola Austin	1896	William C. Werner
	Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray	1866	Day, D.F.	Dresden
	Poa cuspidata Nutt.	1873	W. M. Canby	Zanesville.
	Frullania eboracensis Lehm.	1890	W. C. Werner
	Porella pinnata L.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills, Barrs Mills
	Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills
	Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey	1898	Selby, A.D.	Trinway
	Lachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston

All 887 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ellis: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. 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 Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellis in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 Muskingum 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 1062751. 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.