Hales Creek, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 2002

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 Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Hales Creek between 1998 and 2019, burning about 410 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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:

• Bloom Junction
• South Webster
• Eifort
• Andre
• Edmunds Switch
• Madland (historical)

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Museums hold 120 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hales Creek between 1898 and 1974: 84 Fungi, 30 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Aschinger, H. (Henry), Bryant, J., C. Stein 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
	Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Polyporus semipileatus Peck	1928	Walter Phillips	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1928	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow
	Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Inonotus dryadeus (Pers.) Murrill	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River

All 120 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hales Creek: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 Scioto County

The National Weather Service names Hales Creek in 1 storm report between 1997 and 1997: 1 flash 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 Scioto 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 1075983. 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.