Minnehan Bend, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 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.

• 1915 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Morgantown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Minnehan Bend between 2006 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 1 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:

• Nipgen
• Spargursville
• Harris
• Pleasant Grove
• Summithill
• Denver

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 601 specimens collected within 10 miles of Minnehan Bend between 1874 and 1975: 558 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 14 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. (John), Bartley, F. (Floyd) & Boecher, H. (Harold), Beattie R. Kent 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
	Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger	1909	Henry S. Jewett	near Sulphur Lick Springs
	Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.	1909	Henry S. Jewett	Sulphur Lick Springs
	Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.	1914	Bruce Fink	Bainbridge
	Euaesthetus iripennis Casey, 1884	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
	Myrmedonia loricata Casey, 1893	1874	[Not Stated]	[Not Stated]
	Elanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1898	Seip, J. (John)	Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
	Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1901	not recorded	Ross, Ohio, USA
	Lophophanes Kaup, 1829	1901	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Ross, Ohio, USA
	Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1905	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Waverly, Ross, Ohio, USA
	Parus carolinensis Audubon, 1834	1919	Price, H. (Homer)	bank of Scioto River, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
	Acroneuria abnormis (Newman, 1838)	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy

All 601 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.

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 1065036. 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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