Greencastle, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1925 1984

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.

• 1925 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS East Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Canal Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877; History of Fairfield County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1912 names this settlement in its chapter on Bloom 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 2 fires within 5 miles of Greencastle between 2012 and 2020, burning about 27 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:

• Carroll
• Havensport
• Lockville
• Rock Mill
• Slough
• Wesley Chapel

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,242 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greencastle between 1843 and 1975: 1,767 Animalia, 393 Fungi, 73 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Bales, B. R., Birch, W. 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
	Kuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur	1891	Freda Detmers	Rock Mill
	Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.	1892	W.A. Kellerman
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens	Lancaster
	Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
	Phyllogonium norvegicum Brid.	1843	Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivant	near Lancaster
	Bruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
	Dicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton	1849	C. L. Lesquereux
	Dicranum condensatum Hedw.	1849	C. L. Lesquereux	Lancaster
	Aecidium Pers.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Near Amanda
	Aecidium compositarum Mart.	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Aecidium galii Pers.	1883	Kellerman, W.A.	Amanda

All 2,242 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Greencastle: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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 Fairfield County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greencastle in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 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 Fairfield 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 1064753. 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.