Lima, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1992

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 Pomeroy quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Pomeroy 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
• 1992 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Lima between 2009 and 2020, burning about 29 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
• Wolfpen
• Bunker Hill (historical)
• Harrisonville
• Horner Hill
• Bradbury

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Museums hold 274 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lima between 1840 and 1973: 232 Animalia, 36 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
	Jungermannia sullivantii Austin	1844	W. S. Sullivant	In woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden
	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

All 274 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lima: 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 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062854. 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.