Mechanicsburg, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 2002

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.

• 1905 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1924 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS New Matamoras quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mechanicsburg between 2015 and 2020, burning about 10 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:

• Greenbrier
• Jericho
• Brownsville
• Graham
• Graysville
• Marr

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Museums hold 407 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mechanicsburg between 1860 and 1975: 382 Animalia, 12 Fungi, 11 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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
	Taphrina sacchari Jenkins	1922	O.L. Inman	Antioch College
	Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1929	Herbert R. Mooney	Woodsfield
	Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863	1968	L. Macior	[Not Stated]
	Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1860	David M. Dennis	3 mi. N Graysville
	Arenaria serpyllifolia L.	1911	O. E. Jennings	Kelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
	Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants	1911	O. E. Jennings	Kelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.
	unnamed (fossil)	1914	Collector Unknown	Woodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
	Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1921	Ortmann, Arnold E	Woodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
	Colletotrichum cereale Manns	1922	Thompson W. H.	Woodsfield
	Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.	1928	Archer, W. A.	Greenbrier
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Ohio River tributary, within north of Fly in Jackson township, near Sistersville, Jackson township

All 407 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076373. 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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