Merritt, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Merritt between 1993 and 2020, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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:

• Bald Knobs
• Bashan
• Stiversville
• Elden (historical)
• Hazael
• Oakgrove (historical)

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Museums hold 374 specimens collected within 10 miles of Merritt between 1840 and 1973: 284 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 38 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Carroll H. D., Carroll, G. 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
	Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.	1940	Carroll, G.	Big Spruce Creek
	Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée	1945	Cooke, V.	Ravenswood
	Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander	1963	William G. Gambill Jr.
	Asplenium trichomanes L.	1840	Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard	Meigs County, Ohio
	Jungermannia sullivantii Austin	1844	W. S. Sullivant	In woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden
	Gymnosporangium clavariaeforme (Jacq.) DC.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Leptostroma quercinum Lasch	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Lophodermium arundinaceum (Schrad.) Chevall.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Mycosphaerella fraxinicola (Schwein.) House	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Ophiobolus fulgidus (Cooke & Peck) Sacc.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Septoria E.M.Fries, 1819	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill
	Stegophora ulmea (Fr.) Syd. & P.Syd.	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Cedar Hill

All 374 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Merritt: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 Meigs 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 1062889. 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.