Great Bend, 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 Ravenswood quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:62500
• 1928 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:62500
• 1928 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:62500
• 1928 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Ravenswood quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Great Bend between 1996 and 2019, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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:

• Oldtown Flats
• Rolandus
• Spiller
• Elden (historical)
• Portland
• Stiversville

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Museums hold 262 specimens collected within 10 miles of Great Bend between 1883 and 1973: 193 Animalia, 43 Fungi, 23 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Balser, G., Bartholomew, E.A.; Wilson, D., Blankenbaker, 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
	Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.	1940	Carroll, G.	Big Spruce Creek
	Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée	1945	Cooke, V.	Ravenswood
	Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub	1964	Wistendahl, J.D.	Athens. Sportsman Club Road, roadside ravine. Forked Run State Park.
	Gymnosporangium clavariaeforme (Jacq.) DC.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Leptostroma quercinum Lasch	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Lophodermium arundinaceum (Schrad.) Chevall.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Mycosphaerella fraxinicola (Schwein.) House	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Ophiobolus fulgidus (Cooke & Peck) Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Septoria E.M.Fries, 1819	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Stegophora ulmea (Fr.) Syd. & P.Syd.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Rostr.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Opheodrys aestivus Linnaeus, 1766	1885	not recorded	Ripley Landing

All 262 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Great Bend: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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 Meigs 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 1062793. 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.