McGaw, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 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.

• 1915 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Pond Run quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Nile 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 27 fires within 5 miles of McGaw between 1999 and 2020, burning about 3,900 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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:

• Buena Vista
• Kennvale
• Camp Oyo
• Pond Run

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 707 specimens collected within 10 miles of McGaw between 1924 and 1975: 588 Animalia, 83 Plantae, 34 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A.J. Sharp, Braun, E. Lucy 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
	Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1939	R. Rhoades	Pond Creek, 1 mile Below Lake Shawnee, Nile Township
	Athripsodes Billberg, 1820	1942	not recorded
	Calypogeia sullivantii Austin	1924	M. A. Taylor	Upper Twin Creek.
	Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor	Upper Twin Creek.
	Cephaloziella hampeana (Nees) Schiffn. ex Loeske	1924	M. A. Taylor	Upper Twin Creek.
	Jungermannia pumila With.	1924	M. A. Taylor	Upper Twin Creek.
	Nardia crenuliformis (Austin) Lindb.	1924	M. A. Taylor	Upper Twin Creek.
	Hymetta anthisma McAtee, 1919	1927	Walson
	Notropis boops Gilbert, 1884	1927	not recorded	Turkey Creek, Nile township, ~4.2 mi NW of Saint Paul, Nile township
	Crotalus horridus horridus	1928	Sloan, R. C.	Shawnee State Forest, Scioto Co., Ohio
	Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Turkey Creek, near mouth of Stony Run, ~1 mile ENE of Friendship OH, Nile Township
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Turkey Creek, near mouth of Stony Run, ~1 mile ENE of Friendship OH, Nile Township

All 707 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1048963. 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.

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