Mechanicsville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1986

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.

• 1916 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mechanicsville (historical) between 2009 and 2009, burning about 4 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:

• Bowersville
• Gunnerville
• Middleton Corner
• Paintersville
• Pattersons Corner

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Museums hold 63 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mechanicsville (historical) between 1878 and 1974: 45 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Borror, D. J. (Donald J.), Carter, J. B. (James B.), D. Demarée 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
	Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	Clifton Gorge
	Mayetiola destructor (Say, 1817)	1878	not recorded
	Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1899	Young, W.U.	"On limestone banks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Asplenium trichomanes L.	1899	Young, W.U.	"On limestone rocks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1899	Young, W.U.	"[Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
	Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray	1899	Young, W.U.
	Calopompilus Ashmead, 1900	1902	D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
	Woodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr.	1908	L. S. Hopkins
	Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1910	Carter, J. B. (James B.)	Smith's Creek, Greene, Ohio, USA
	Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.	1912	Henry S. Jewett	Neff [House] Park
	Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Massies Creek, near Cedarville OH, Cedarville township
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hazard, F. O. et al.	Clifton Gorge: near springs & edge of creek, Greene Co., Ohio

All 63 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 1067585. 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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