Otsego, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Rodrick Bridge, Spanning Wills Creek, Otsegofederal building survey, 12 photographs

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.

• 1908 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Otsego quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Otsego quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Monroe township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

1794. History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Otsego between 2009 and 2020, burning about 46 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:

• Bloomfield
• Ferncliff (historical)
• Marquand Mills
• Adamsville
• Bridgeville
• Brighton

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,146 specimens collected within 10 miles of Otsego between 1893 and 1975: 840 Animalia, 296 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, Adams, W., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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
	Synchytrium decipiens (Farl.) Farl.	1931	E. B. Mains
	Catocala amatrix Hübner, 1813	1954	Betty Dasch	New Concord
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills, Barrs Mills
	Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills
	Bubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1908	A. H. Wright	New Concord
	Medicago sativa L.	1911	Coleman, J.	New Concord
	Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
	Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Near Adams Mills, Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Dichostereum effuscatum (Cooke & Ellis) Boidin & Lanq.	1931	E. B. Mains
	Allocapnia recta (Claassen, 1924)	1935	H.H. Ross
	Allocapnia rickeri Frison, 1942	1935	H.H. Ross

All 1,146 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otsego in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 Muskingum 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 1049044. 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.