Oreton, 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.

1905 1980

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.

• 1905 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mc Arthur quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mcarthur quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mcarthur quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Oreton between 2007 and 2019, burning about 59 acres in total. None 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:

• Puritan
• Dundas
• McArthur
• Radcliff
• Clarion
• Hamden

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Museums hold 981 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oreton between 1878 and 1975: 907 Animalia, 52 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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
	Houstonia caerulea L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
	Krigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
	Luzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.	1878	None	Hamden
	Plantago lanceolata L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Hamden
	Acordulecera dorsalis	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Acordulecera mellina	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891	1900	not recorded	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
	Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
	Argyra minuta Loew, 1861	1900	none specified	Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States
	Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)	1900	Hine	Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 981 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oreton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Vinton County

The National Weather Service names Oreton in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Vinton 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 1062925. 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.