Ironspot, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1984

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.

• 1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Zanesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Crooksville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Crooksville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Crooksville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Crooksville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Crooksville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Ironspot between 2013 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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:

• Roseville
• Cannon
• East Fultonham
• Cannelville
• Fultonham
• Roberts (historical)

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Museums hold 363 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ironspot between 1873 and 1973: 325 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, William, Buker, 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
	Tabanus quinquevittatus Wiedemann, 1821	1916	O.
	Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878	1916	O.
	Poa cuspidata Nutt.	1873	W. M. Canby	Zanesville.
	Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner	Fultonham
	Lycogala exiguum Morgan, 1893	1893	Morgan A.P.	Preston
	Gyromitra brunnea Underw.	1909	Moore S. R.	Zanesville
	Anthophoridae	1916	not recorded
	Bombus vagans Smith, 1854	1916	P.R. Lowry
	Colletes nudus Robertson, 1898	1916	unknown
	Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882	1920	A.E. Miller
	Linognathus vituli (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	P. R. Lowry
	Macrophya Dahlbom, 1835	1920	A.E. Miller

All 363 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Ironspot: 6 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Limestone, General, 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 Muskingum County

The National Weather Service names Ironspot in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 Muskingum 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 1064889. 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.