Monroe, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 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.

• 1912 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS South Webster quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Monroe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,058 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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:

• Blackfork Junction
• Hitchcock
• Horeb
• Oak Hill
• Mabee Corner
• McCoy

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Monroe between 1925 and 1973: 105 Fungi, 16 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Beach, S. (Sam) 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
	Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Polyporus semipileatus Peck	1928	Walter Phillips	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1928	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow
	Inonotus dryadeus (Pers.) Murrill	1925	G. T. Jones	Mill Hollow, Vermillion River
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Scioto River, within Ecentral Madison township, near South Webster, Madison township
	Lythrurus fasciolaris (Gilbert, 1891)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Scioto River, within Ecentral Madison township, near South Webster, Madison township
	Enteridium rozeanum (Rostaf.) Wingate, 1889	1932	Cooke, William Bridge	Dark Hollow
	Leptotus muscigenus (Bull.) Maire	1932	Cooke, William Bridge	Dark Hollow
	Mycena alcalina (Fr.) P.Kumm.	1932	Cooke, William Bridge	Dark Hollow
	Mycena corticola (Pers.) Gray	1932	Cooke, William Bridge	Dark Hollow
	Perenniporia ohiensis (Berk.) Ryvarden	1932	W. B. Cooke	Dark Hollow, Loveland
	Chlorociboria Seaver ex C.S.Ramamurthi, Korf & L.R.Batra	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek

All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Monroe: 8 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 flood. 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 Jackson 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 1076418. 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.