Mineral Springs, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1916 1991

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 Peebles quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
• 1918 USGS Peebles quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Jaybird quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Jaybird quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Jaybird quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Jaybird quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Jaybird quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Meigs 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 19 fires within 5 miles of Mineral Springs between 2004 and 2020, burning about 64 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:

• Scrub Ridge
• Fawcett
• Jones Corner
• Steam Furnace
• Wamsley
• Cedar Mills

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,399 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mineral Springs between 1866 and 1975: 573 Fungi, 488 Animalia, 304 Plantae, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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
	Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1879	A. B. Seymour	Adams County
	Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.	1900	W.A. Kellerman	Mineral Springs
	Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 1931	1927	[Not Stated]	Beaver Pond
	Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
	Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
	Stigmella platani Fuckel	1892	Kellerman W. A.	Mineral Springs
	Phyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel	1900	Kern W. A.	Mineral Springs
	Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	Kellerman W. A.	Adams Co.
	Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1925	Muegel, Harry R.	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,399 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mineral Springs: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 Adams 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 1065033. 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.