Langsville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1980

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.

• 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Langsville between 2012 and 2018, burning about 19 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:

• Rutland
• Buckhorn (historical)
• Hanesville
• Dexter
• Hobson
• Lima

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Museums hold 268 specimens collected within 10 miles of Langsville between 1840 and 1973: 204 Animalia, 58 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Charles M. Roberts, Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard 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
	Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.
	Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.
	Ruellia humilis Nutt.	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.
	Asplenium trichomanes L.	1840	Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard	Meigs County, Ohio
	Carex communis var. communis	1862	W. M. Canby	Cheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Trichostrongylus Looss, 1905	1906	E. Stevenson	Clifton
	Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Heterakidae	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Oesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 1890	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1916	Nixon, E. L.	Pomeroy
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp

All 268 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Langsville in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 flood, 1 heavy rain, 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 Meigs 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 1064968. 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.