Grooms, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 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.

• 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:48000
• 1917 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Byington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Grooms between 2003 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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:

• Smoky Corners
• Jaybird
• Pine Gap
• Blue Creek
• Jones Corner
• Selig

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 697 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grooms between 1892 and 1971: 382 Fungi, 226 Plantae, 73 Animalia, 16 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, Bartley, F., Bauer 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
	Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.	1900	W.A. Kellerman	Mineral Springs
	Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 1931	1927	[Not Stated]	Beaver Pond
	Corticium ermineum Burt	1930	Hoskins, John Hobart	Near Beaver Pond
	Stigmella platani Fuckel	1892	Kellerman W. A.	Mineral Springs
	Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Kern W. A.	Mineral Springs
	Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W. A. Kellerman	Mineral Springs
	Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1925	Muegel, Harry R.	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia uncialis (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 697 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grooms: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Adams 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 1062796. 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.