Meigs, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 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.

• 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Meigs between 2012 and 2015, burning about 1 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:

• Airington (historical)
• Cloud (historical)
• Neelysville
• Rowland (historical)
• Brill (historical)
• Bristol

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Museums hold 457 specimens collected within 10 miles of Meigs between 1887 and 1974: 362 Animalia, 86 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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
	Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.	1887	Morgan
	Leskea obscura Hedw.	1896	W. A. Kellerman
	Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)	1903	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1904	not recorded	Meigs Creek
	Merulius incarnatus Schwein.	1906	Collector unspecified	McConnellsville
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Ricker A. J.	MCCONNELSVILLE
	Atrichopogon fusinervis (Malloch, 1915)	1927	F. N.	McConnelsville
	Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)	1927	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Bezzia Kieffer, 1899	1927	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Dasyhelea Kieffer, 1911	1927	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818	1927	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Hybopsis Agassiz, 1854	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Muskingum River, at McConnelsvile, ~0.3 mi E of Malta, Morgan township

All 457 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Meigs: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Morgan 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 1084018. 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.