Middletown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1992

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.

• 1914 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1916 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS North Lewisburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS North Lewisburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS North Lewisburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Middletown between 2002 and 2002, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Brush Lake (historical)
• Meadows of North Lewisburg
• Mingo
• Cable
• Fountain Park
• Kennard

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,073 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middletown between 1838 and 1975: 875 Animalia, 139 Plantae, 54 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross, A. Spreitzer 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
	Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.	1877	J. E. Biddlecome
	Frullania squarrosa (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Dumort.	1877	J. E. Biddlecome
	Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.	1902	Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.	Brush Lake
	Acer negundo L.	1838	Samples, John	Urbana
	Radula complanata (L.) Dumort.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	prope Urbana Ohionis
	Radula obconica Sull.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	near Urbana
	Cratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.) Spruce	1875	H. J. Biddlecome
	Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus (Hedw.) Warnst.	1875	Hannah J. Biddlecome	Urbana
	Sphagnum girgensohnii Russow	1875	Hannah J. Biddlecome	Urbana
	Thuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.	1875	Hannah J. Biddlecome	Urbana
	Trichocolea tomentella (Ehrh.) Dumort.	1875	H. J. Biddlecome	Urbana
	Bryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.	1876	Hannah J. Biddlecome	Urbana

All 1,073 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middletown in 1 storm report between 1999 and 1999: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 Champaign 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 1061518. 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.