Fox, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 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.

• 1911 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Darbyville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson 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 1 fire within 5 miles of Fox in 2009, burning under an acre 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:

• Ashton Crossing
• Ashton Village
• Ashville
• Bells (historical)
• Brandon Court
• Bridlewood

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,895 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fox between 1829 and 1975: 2,807 Animalia, 74 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Abbott, R; and others 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
	unnamed	1896	F. L. Stevens	Big Walnut.
	Rallus elegans elegans Audubon, 1834	1829	Florence, A. (Arledge)	Col Anderson farm 6 1/2 mi west of Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812	1876	Jones, H. (Howard)	Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898	1877	Jones, H. (Howard)	Goose Pond, near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Hirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert, 1783	1879	Jones, H. (Howard)	near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)	1880	Jones, H. (Howard)	near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	Mearns, E.A.	Circleville near Scioto River.
	Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1880	Jones, H. (Howard)	Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
	Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	Jones, H. (Howard)	near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 1808	1881	Jones, H. (Howard)	Scioto River bottoms near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Petrochelidon pyrrhonota (Vieillot, 1817)	1881	Jones, H. (Howard)	near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
	Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1881	Jones, H. (Howard)	near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA

All 2,895 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fox: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 Pickaway County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 3 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 Pickaway 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 1048755. 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.