Macon, 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.

1918 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.

• 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Macon between 2002 and 2020, burning about 77 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:

• Fincastle
• Five Points
• Brownstown
• Sardinia
• Arnheim
• Ash Ridge

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Museums hold 223 specimens collected within 10 miles of Macon between 1885 and 1974: 158 Animalia, 58 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, A. Braun 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
	Hirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk	1903	Blickle, A.H.	Brown County, Ohio
	Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1916	A. B. Seymour
	Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)	1929	A. Braun	[Not Stated]
	Valsa ludibunda Sacc.	1885	Rev. C. H. Demetrio	(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
	Equisetum hyemale L.	1897	Kreke, Fr. M.	Arnheim
	Perenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden	1909	J. P. Tracy
	Anaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.	1923	Braun, E. Lucy	White Oak Creek
	Peltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf	1923	Braun, E. Lucy	White Oak
	Usnea subfloridana Stirt.	1923	Braun, E. Lucy	White Oak
	Lobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Sardinia
	Sticta fuliginosa (With.) Ach.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Sardinia
	Polytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot	1928	Fulford, Margaret H.	White Oak

All 223 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Macon in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1042873. 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.