Mount Joy, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 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.

• 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Rarden quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rarden quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rarden quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rarden quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Mount Joy between 2003 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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:

• Sedan
• Otway
• Youngs
• Bear Creek
• Crabtree
• Henley

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Museums hold 637 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Joy between 1893 and 1975: 525 Animalia, 95 Fungi, 16 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. W. Evermann, Bean & B. Evermann, Braun, E. Lucy 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	1897	F.L. Stevens	Alum Rock
	Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)	1909	not recorded	Scioto River, Pakistan
	Quadrula Rafinesque, 1820	1909	not recorded	Piketon, Scioto River
	Myelochroa galbina (Ach.) Elix & Hale	1893	Jones, T.H.B	Otway
	Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 1855	1894	Bean & B. Evermann	Scioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
	Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1894	B. W. Evermann	Cooperville; Scioto Cr
	Eratoneura minor (Beamer, 1932)	1921	McAtee
	Percina sciera (Swain, 1883)	1926	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Sunfish Creek, within southeast Newton township, near Jasper, Newton township
	Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. B.	Scioto River, adjacent to SR 104, 1 mile southwest of Sargents OH, Camp Creek/Scioto Township
	Notropis volucellus wickliffi Trautman, 1931	1927	MB Trautman	Scioto River
	Phenacobius mirabilis (Girard, 1856)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, overflow pond beside Scioto River, 1 mile SW of Sargents OH, Section 8 Scioto Township
	Physcia (Schreb.) Michx., 1803	1927	Braun, E. Lucy	Beech Fork, Laurel Falls

All 637 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 1061135. 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.