Front Royal, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 1966

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.

• 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Gambier quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

History Knox County, Ohio, published 1881 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 14 fires within 5 miles of Front Royal (historical) between 2009 and 2020, burning about 18 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:

• Bladensburg
• Esto
• Artanna
• Martinsburg
• Pipesville
• Berger

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 96 specimens collected within 10 miles of Front Royal (historical) between 1890 and 1975: 69 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Collector unknown, Collector unspecified, Condit, J. M. (John 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
	Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.	1896	F. L. Stevens	Hayden Falls
	Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)	1890	Parker, J. B.	Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
	Aesculus hippocastanum L.	1892	Collector unspecified
	Cornus florida L.	1892	Collector unknown
	Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak	1892	M. C. Ferguson	Gambier
	Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1892	M. Warner	Gambier
	Oxalis violacea L.	1892	Collector unspecified
	Polytrichum commune Hedw.	1892	not recorded	Gambier
	Rumex acetosella L.	1892	Collector unspecified
	Rumex obtusifolius L.	1892	M. C. Ferguson
	Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1898	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll), Williamson, E. B. & Parker, J. B.	Big Jelloway Creek, Big Jelloway Creek, Knox County, township n/a
	Taenia Linnaeus, 1758	1907	L. Walton	Gambier

All 96 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1075230. 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.