Modoc, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 2002

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.

• 1903 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Nelsonville quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Modoc between 1994 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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:

• Greens Run
• Goose Run (historical)
• Olbers
• Redtown
• Truetown
• East Millfield

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Museums hold 732 specimens collected within 10 miles of Modoc between 1896 and 1973: 619 Animalia, 84 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Blickle, Barnes, R., Barnes, R.C. 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
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
	Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood	1898	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens
	Catocala innubens Guenée, 1852	1910	Shuey, J. A. (John A.)	Athens, Athens Co., OH
	Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.	1912	Dunlap O. E.	Athens
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1916	not recorded
	Osmia proxima Cresson, 1864	1916	Sladen, F	Athens
	Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger	1919	L. Bonar	Glouster
	Hydropsyche simulans Ross, 1938	1927	Denning, D	Athens

All 732 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Modoc: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 Athens County

The National Weather Service names Modoc in 1 storm report between 2014 and 2014: 1 hail. 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 Athens 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 1076411. 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.

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.