Guernsey, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 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.

• 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000

Portrait and Biographical Record of Guernsey County, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, published 1895 names this settlement in its chapter on Wheeling Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Guernsey between 2013 and 2020, burning about 12 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:

• Kimbolton
• North Salem
• Birds Run
• Toledoville (historical)
• Northgate
• Odell

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 47 specimens collected within 10 miles of Guernsey between 1902 and 1975: 35 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Bartenstein T. E., Burdick, D. 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
	Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.	1902	F.O. Grover	Black Swamp
	Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.	1922	F. O. Grover	Black swamp
	Poria pulchella (Schwein.) Cooke	1922	F.O. Grover	Black Swamp
	Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.	1906	Wilson C. B.	Oberlin near Black Swamp
	Taphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul.	1912	Bartenstein T. E.	Warrentown
	Isoetes muricata Durieu	1913	L. S. Hazel M, D.D. Hopkins	Brady's Lake.
	Clavaria kunzei Fr.	1923	Treat, Dorothy	Birmingham
	Polyporus caesius (Schrad.) Fr.	1923	Nicholson Lawrence	Vermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. Frondose Woods along
	Stereum rameale (Pers.) Burt	1923	Grover F. O.	Vermilion River, 1.5 Mi. S. of Birmingham, Erie Co. in Woods along
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	MB Trautman	Sugar Tree Fork, center of Liberty Twp.
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman	Sugar Tree Fork, center of Liberty Twp.
	Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1929	MB Trautman	Sugar Tree Fork, center of Liberty Twp.

All 47 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guernsey in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 Guernsey County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1041206. 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.

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.