Moss Run, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1924 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
• 1976 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS Belmont quadrangle1:24000

History of Washington County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Lawrence 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 20 fires within 5 miles of Moss Run between 2001 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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:

• Dart
• Fay
• Cow Run
• Gracey
• Heslop
• Sitka

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,158 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moss Run between 1853 and 1975: 1,082 Animalia, 40 Fungi, 34 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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
	Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.	1923	W.G. Stoner	Marietta
	Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.	1932	C. May	Marietta
	Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.	1932	L.W.R.J.	Nursery, Marietta
	Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Anaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1853	E. Andrews	Marietta, Ohio
	Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843	1853	not recorded	Marietta
	Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)	1879	W. Holden	Ohio River, Near Marietta
	Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)	1883	Albert Hazen Wright	Marietta

All 1,158 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moss Run in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Washington 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 1076439. 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.