Palos, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 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.

• 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Corning quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Palos between 2006 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Burr Oak
• Glouster
• Hartleyville
• McLeish
• Oakdale
• Trimble

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Museums hold 62 specimens collected within 10 miles of Palos between 1898 and 1972: 51 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolen, H. (Harold), Collector(s): John W. Meldrim, DAVID M SEVER 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
	Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood	1898	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1916	not recorded
	Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger	1919	L. Bonar	Glouster
	Notropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
	Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)	1929	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
	Fontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.	1932	E. L. Braun	On lower tributary of Bundle Run, above falls
	Synandra hispidula (Michx.) Britton	1939	F. Bartley	Along Ohio Brush Creek near Jacksonville
	Diploperla robusta Stark & Gaufin, 1974	1940	J. D. Walker
	Sweltsa hoffmani Kondratieff & Kirchner, 2009	1940	J. D. Walker

All 62 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Palos in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 Athens 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 1076594. 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.