New Salem, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1984

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.

• 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Thornville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Rushville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rushville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rushville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rushville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Walnut 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 3 fires within 5 miles of New Salem between 2012 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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:

• Oakthorpe
• Baltimore
• Colfax
• Fairfield Beach
• Kellers Court
• Pleasantville

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,031 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Salem between 1843 and 1975: 906 Animalia, 78 Fungi, 46 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Albertin, Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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
	Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822	1893	unknown	Licking Reservoir
	Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
	Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
	Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
	Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA
	Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév.	1882	Kellerman, W.A.	Fairfield Co. Ohio
	Spiraea tomentosa L.	1882	Kellerman, W.A.	Fairfield Co. Ohio
	Didymium squamulosum (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr. & Palmquist, 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman
	Ranunculus longirostris Godr.	1893	E. M. Wilcox	Licking Reservoir
	Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1897	Williamson, E. B. & Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Buckeye Lake, Walnut township, ~1.1 mi W of Fairfield Beach, Walnut township
	Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.	1900	Williamson, E.B.	New Salem
	Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Buckeye Lake, Walnut Twp., Fairfield Co., Ohio

All 1,031 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Salem in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 1 hail, 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 Fairfield 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 1049011. 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.