May Hill, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1917 1986

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.

• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Belfast quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Scott 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 22 fires within 5 miles of May Hill between 2003 and 2018, burning about 53 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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:

• Jessup
• Buck Run (historical)
• Louisville
• Tranquility
• Emerald
• Irvington (historical)

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 304 specimens collected within 10 miles of May Hill between 1903 and 1975: 138 Fungi, 107 Animalia, 57 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. J. Sharp, Bartley, F., Belk, 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
	Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931)	1903	not recorded
	Hebata vitis (Göthe, 1875)	1903	not recorded
	Collema fragrans (Sm.) Ach.	1913	Bruce Fink
	Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner	1913	Bruce Fink	Serpent Mound
	Agave virginica L.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Turkey Creek
	Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia caespiticia (Pers.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey & Scherb.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1924	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs
	Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia uncialis (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Parmelia Acharius, 1803	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 304 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names May Hill in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 Adams 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 1057837. 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.