McAvan, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1994

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.

• 1902 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Fleming quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of McAvan between 1998 and 2019, burning about 9 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:

• Fleming
• Constitution
• Dunham
• Pinehurst
• Locust Fork
• Moore Junction

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Museums hold 1,357 specimens collected within 10 miles of McAvan between 1853 and 1974: 1,146 Animalia, 174 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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
	Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1922	E. Bartholomew
	Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.	1923	W.G. Stoner	Marietta
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1853	E. Andrews	Marietta, Ohio
	Inula helenium L.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Sonchus asper (L.) Hill	1877	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Amaranthus spinosus L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Clinopodium vulgare L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.*	Parkersburg
	Scutellaria nervosa Pursh	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)	1879	W. Holden	Ohio River, Near Marietta
	Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1886	Georg Baur	Marietta
	Rorippa palustris var. fernaldiana (Butters & Abbe) Stuckey	1891	C. F. Millspaugh	Parkersburg.
	Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Shufeldt, R.	Marietta

All 1,357 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of McAvan: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Washington 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 1062883. 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.