Greer, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 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.

• 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Greer quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Greer quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Greer quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson 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 17 fires within 5 miles of Greer between 2006 and 2020, burning about 33 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:

• Jelloway
• Brinkhaven
• College Hill
• Danville
• Buckeye City
• Nunda

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 186 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greer between 1890 and 1974: 182 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson, Crunkilton, R. (Ron) & Crunkilton, L. (Lila) 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
	Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Lampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)	1890	Parker, J. B.	Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
	Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1897	W. A. Kellerman	Brinkhaven.
	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
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1903	V. Sterki	Tuscarawas River
	Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)	1905	C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson	Newcastle Township, Mohican River, just above its confluence with Kokosing River
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township
	Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Little Jelloway Creek, within Pike township, near Jelloway, Pike township

All 186 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greer: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone. 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 Knox 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 1064764. 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.