Mechanicsburg, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1992

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.

• 1914 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1916 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 87 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mechanicsburg between 1902 and 1973: 42 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 17 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Beattie R. K., Brodo, Irwin M. 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
	Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.	1902	Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.	Brush Lake
	Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.	1902	Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.	Brush Lake
	Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur	1902	J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler
	Phragmidium potentillae (Pers.) P.Karst.	1902	J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
	Puccinia eatoniae Arthur	1902	J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
	Puccinia minutissima Arthur	1902	J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
	Puccinia myosotidis Tranzschel	1902	Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.	Brush Lake
	Puccinia nesaeae (W.R.Gerard) Ellis & Everh.	1902	J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
	Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.	1902	J. H. Schaffner & F. J. Tyler	Brush Lake
	Macrosporium catalpae Ellis & G.Martin	1908	Rogers H. C.	Mechanicsburg
	Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.	1918	Wing Seed Co.?	Mechanicsburg
	Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1922	Selby A. D.; Selby Linville	Mechanicsburg

All 87 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Mechanicsburg in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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 Champaign 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 1061501. 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.

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.