Levanna, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1928 1991

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.

• 1928 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:48000
• 1931 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:62500
• 1952 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Union 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 Levanna between 1997 and 1997, burning about 3 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:

• Reeds

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 286 specimens collected within 10 miles of Levanna between 1883 and 1974: 250 Animalia, 32 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Ahles, H.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
	Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1938	R. Rhoades	Small Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	Kellerman W. A.	Cedar Hill
	Stictis Pers., 1800	1883	Kellerman W. A.	Cedar Hill
	Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Cercospora sordida Sacc.	1899	King H. B.	Ripley
	Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera peckii U.Braun	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera ravenelii Berk.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Uromyces phaseoli G.Winter	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Panus stipticus (Bull.) Fr.	1903	Lyon, C. D.	Higginsport

All 286 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 Levanna: 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 Brown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Levanna in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 Brown 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 1064990. 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.