Luray, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1984

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 Thurston quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Thurston quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Millersport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Millersport quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Millersport quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Luray between 2009 and 2020, burning about 30 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:

• Har-Win Acres
• Kirkersville
• Wooded Hills
• Buckeye Lake
• Canyon Villa Estates
• Hebron

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Museums hold 2,533 specimens collected within 10 miles of Luray between 1843 and 1975: 2,200 Animalia, 257 Fungi, 47 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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
	Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1884	F. S. Robinson
	Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822	1893	unknown	Licking Reservoir
	Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1893	J.B. Ellis	Granville
	Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
	Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
	Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	Mack, D. (Don)	Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
	Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789	1874	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)	1878	Savage, E. (Ed)	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789	1880	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,533 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Luray in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 1062865. 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.