Emerald, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1917 1986

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.

• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Sugar Tree Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Emerald between 2004 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 1 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:

• Mount Zion (historical)
• Buck Run (historical)
• Mount Leigh (historical)
• Irvington (historical)
• Seaman
• Winchester

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 11 specimens collected within 10 miles of Emerald between 1928 and 1973: 10 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 9 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by D. L. Donaldson, Floyd Bartley, H. Price 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
	Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Fork Ohio Brush Creek, within Scott township, near Seaman, Scott township
	Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1938	R. Rhoades	Branch To Cherry Fork, at Harshasville, Oliver Township
	Enodia anthedon Clark, 1936	1939	not recorded	Winchester
	Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890	1943	H. Price	Six Mile Creek, Emerald Township
	Terrapene carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1947	RICHARD KNOTTS	3 MI S E OF MACON
	Ambystoma barbouri Kraus & Petranka, 1989	1963	Ledgerwood, C. R., Bubaker, J. A. & Moore, F. J. (Frank J.)	2 mi S of Adams Co. line on SR 247, Scott Twp, Adams Co., Ohio
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1963	Ledgerwood, C. R., Bubaker, J. A. & Moore, F. J. (Frank J.)	2 mi S of Adams Co. line on SR 247, Scott Twp, Adams Co., Ohio
	Cirriphyllum boscii (Schwägr.) Grout	1967	Floyd Bartley	Along Route 32 near Tranquilty.
	Polydesmida	1973	D. L. Donaldson	Winchester

All 11 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emerald in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 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 Adams 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 1040186. 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.