Florence, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS South Charleston quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 166 specimens collected within 10 miles of Florence between 1889 and 1972: 159 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward, Betz, E., Cartwright, O.L. 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
	Chrysops cincticornis Walker, 1848	1902	not recorded
	Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1902	not recorded
	Enallagma civile (Hagen, 1861)	1969	B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward	along U.S. 40, 11 miles east of Springfield
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Spizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Buteo Lacepede, 1799	1894	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Otus asio (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)	1896	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1901	not recorded	State Fish Hatchery, London in Madison Co, 4.3 mi W of London, Union township

All 166 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Florence in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Madison 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 1062768. 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.

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.