Orpheus, 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.

1906 1981

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 Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Rio Grande quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rio Grande quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Rio Grande quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Orpheus between 2006 and 2018, burning about 34 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:

• Vega
• Limestone (historical)
• Pyro
• Rempel
• Winchester
• Clay

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Museums hold 420 specimens collected within 10 miles of Orpheus between 1899 and 1974: 203 Animalia, 177 Plantae, 36 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Beach, S. (Sam) 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
	Metzgeria furcata (L.) Corda	1925	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
	Eriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889)	1923	Miller, A. E. (August E.)	Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A.
	unnamed	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Bazzania trilobata (L.) Gray	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Cephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Cephalozia media Lindb.	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Diplophyllum apiculatum (A.Evans) Steph.	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch
	Harpanthus scutatus (F.Weber & D.Mohr) Spruce	1924	M. A. Taylor	White's Gulch

All 420 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Orpheus: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Aluminum, Titanium, Silica, Iron. 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 Jackson 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 1044196. 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.