Jersey, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1966

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Jersey Independent Order of Odd Fellows Halllisted 2018

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.

• 1908 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Granville quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Jersey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

History of Licking County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Jersey Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jersey in 2009, burning about 1 acre 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:

• Beechwood Trails
• Columbia Center
• Etna
• Fursville
• Moreland Corners
• Pataskala

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 769 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jersey between 1890 and 1975: 736 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Elliott, Bartholomew 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
	Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke	1896	A. P. Morgan	Preston
	Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.	1896	A. P. Morgan	Preston
	Puccinia seymeriae Burrill	1890	not recorded	Alexandria
	Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1893	N. G. Buxton	Johnstown
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	N. G. Buxton	Johnstown
	Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1894	not recorded	Alexandria
	Tabanus trimaculatus Palisot de Beauvois, 1806	1946	Edw S Thomas	Ash Cave
	Thuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.	1950	L. J. Gier	White's Gulch
	Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1975	Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.	Ramp Creek - S. Fk. Licking R., Unnamed trib. on TR 143 about 0.2 mi E of TR 139
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1975	Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.	Ramp Creek--S.Fk.Licking River, unnamed trib. on TR 143 about 0.2 mi E of TR 139.
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1975	Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) & Lea, C. (Carol)	Dry Run- N. Fk. Licking R., Brush Fork; Brush Fork of Dry Cr. at bridge on twp. rte #99 about 1.4mi. E of Co. rte. #21
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1975	Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.	Ramp Creek - S. Fk. Licking R., Unnamed trib. on TR 143 about 0.2 mi E of TR 139

All 769 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jersey: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 Licking County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jersey in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 Licking 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 1064911. 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.