Horton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 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.

• 1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Harrisville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Horton between 2003 and 2019, burning about 11 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:

• Harrisville
• Hagan Addition
• Newtown (historical)
• Belknap
• Chickwan
• Duncanwood

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 6 specimens collected within 10 miles of Horton between 1889 and 1964: 3 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 6 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, L. Dickerson, Miller, W.E. 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
	Sinapis arvensis L.	1889	L. Dickerson
	Pseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.	1908	not recorded	Cadiz
	Halictidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Harrisville, Ohio
	Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis (Riley, 1869)	1964	Miller, W.E.	Harrisville
	Gnorimoschema salinaris Busck, 1911	1964	Miller, W.E.	Harrisville
	Verbena urticifolia L.	1964	Andrew R. Moldenke	Cadiz

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horton in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Harrison 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 1062818. 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.