Mechanicstown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 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.

• 1905 USGS Salineville 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
• 1960 USGS Bergholz quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bergholz quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bergholz quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Bergholz quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Bergholz quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Mechanicstown between 2003 and 2020, burning about 32 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:

• Scroggsfield
• Wattsville
• Norristown
• Specht
• Eckley
• Watheys

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Museums hold 199 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mechanicstown between 1930 and 1975: 135 Animalia, 64 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.W. Cusick, Allen, E. J., Ash, G. (Gail), Buchanan, F. W. (Forrest W.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) 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
	Desmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Eurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Hemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Carroll Co., Ohio
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Plethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 1938	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Pseudacris brachyphona (Cope, 1889)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Pseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Pseudotriton ruber ruber (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Rana sylvatica LeConte, 1825	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio
	Ranidae	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Harlem Springs, Lee Twp., Carroll Co., Ohio

All 199 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Mechanicstown in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 Carroll 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 1061502. 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.

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.