Ilesboro, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS New Plymouth quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Ilesboro between 2007 and 2020, burning about 46 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:

• Ewing
• Starr
• Coonville
• Summit (historical)
• Union Furnace
• Blackjack

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Museums hold 2,844 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ilesboro between 1874 and 1975: 1,922 Animalia, 495 Plantae, 376 Fungi, 35 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A VERWYST, A. L. Welden 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
	Bonasa Stephens, 1819	1874	not recorded	Lancaster or Sugar Grove, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Stamnaria americana Massee & Morgan	1894	W. A. Kellerman
	Phyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel	1901	W. A. K.; Kern E. H.	New Plymouth
	Puccinia helianthi Schwein.	1901	W. A. Kellerman	New Plymouth
	Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1927	Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)	Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1927	C. E. O'Neal
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B. (Robert B.)	Old Man's Cave, Benton Twp., Hocking Co., Ohio
	Microtus pinetorum (Le Conte, 1830)	1927	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Goodhope Twp. Neotoma, Hocking Co., Ohio, USA
	Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
	Compsothlypis Cabanis, 1851	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA

All 2,844 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1076105. 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.