Murphy, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 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.

• 1906 USGS Saint Marys quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
• 1924 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS Saint Marys quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000
• 2002 USGS Raven Rock quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Newport township, in the words of 1902.

The county history of 1902 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 35 fires within 5 miles of Murphy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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:

• Bevan
• Wade
• Deucher
• Schley
• Archers Fork
• Cow Run

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Museums hold 271 specimens collected within 10 miles of Murphy between 1905 and 1975: 224 Animalia, 26 Fungi, 20 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Hazen Wright, Albert Wright, B. F. Story 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
	Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1941	Meddles, O.; Steele, M.	Millwood Twp. From rich woods (lilly), along Putney Ridge between Quaker City and Salesville.
	Alternaria solani Sorauer	1905	Post A. Lee	Long Reach
	Cercospora canescens Ellis & G.Martin	1905	Johnson T. C.	Long Reach
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1905	Post A. L.	Long Reach
	Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni	1905	Post, A. L.	Long Reach
	Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1905	Johnson T. C.	Long Reach
	Puccinia dayi Clinton	1909	Bonner C. M.	Pleasants Co.
	Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Muskingum River, northeastern Marietta Twp
	Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township
	Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman	Little Muskingum River, northeastern Marietta Twp
	Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Little Muskingum River, near Hune Covered Bridge, south of Wingett Run OH, NE Lawrence Township

All 271 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Murphy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone. 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 Washington County

The National Weather Service names Murphy in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050600. 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.