Lewis, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 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.

• 1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000

History of Morgan County, Ohio, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Homer 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 30 fires within 5 miles of Lewis (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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:

• Linscott (historical)
• Bishopville
• Vicksville
• Airington (historical)
• Brill (historical)
• Cloud (historical)

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 83 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lewis (historical) between 1898 and 1972: 57 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.D. Huryn, B.R. Bales, Bolen, H. (Harold) 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
	Apocynum cannabinum L.	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. Johnson	Wolf Creek Wildlife Area
	Asclepias tuberosa L.	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrowe; M. Johnson	Wolf Creek Wildlife Area
	Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.; M. Johnson	Wolf Creek Wildlife Area.
	Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood	1898	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr.	1908	Coker W. C.	Chapel Hill
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	B.R. Bales	Ringgold
	Ambystoma Tschudi, 1838	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio
	Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1927	MB Trautman & RB Foster	W Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
	Fontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.	1932	E. L. Braun	On lower tributary of Bundle Run, above falls

All 83 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 1067292. 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.