Mechanicsburg, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 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.

• 1901 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mechanicsburg between 2002 and 2002, burning about 30 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:

• Boys Village
• Christmas Run
• Deer Creek
• Devil Town
• Douglas (historical)
• Five Points

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Museums hold 2,430 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mechanicsburg between 1877 and 1975: 2,022 Animalia, 221 Plantae, 148 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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
	Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)	1930	B. Montgomery & J. Houser	2 miles northeast of Wooster
	Aster ciliolatus Lindl.	1877	Thorne, B.H.	Station Farm, Wooster
	Chelidon Forster, 1817	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Corthylio calendula calendula	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Cyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 1921	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
	Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster

All 2,430 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mechanicsburg: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Wayne County

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 1061256. 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.