Paris Court West, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1992

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.

• 1914 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
• 1916 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Saint Paris quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Saint Paris quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Paris Court West between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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:

• Christiansburg
• Darnell
• Paris Court East
• Proctor (historical)
• Saint Paris
• Thackery

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Museums hold 279 specimens collected within 10 miles of Paris Court West between 1881 and 1975: 237 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
	Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger	1926	E.C. Leonard	Chapmans Creek, 1 mile east of Thackery
	Climacium americanum Brid.	1881	E. J. Spence	Cedar Swamp, 10 1/2 miles north of Springfield
	Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst.	1892	Dormire Geo.	Carysville
	Phalaris arundinacea L.	1916	EC Leonard	Chapman's [Chapman] Creek E of Thackery.
	Lycoperdon perlatum Pers.	1921	Leonard Emery C.	Thackery Miller's woods near home farm, 1 1/4 mi. E of Thackery
	Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1921	E. C. Leonard	Miller's Woods, about 1 mile northeast of Thackery
	Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger	1921	E. C. Leonard	Miller's Woods, about 1 mile northeast of Thackery
	Bryum caespiticium Hedw.	1925	E. C. Leonard	In Dibert's woods 1 mi E of Thackery
	Campylophyllum hispidulum (Brid.) Hedenäs	1925	E. C. Leonard	Dibert's Woods, 1 mi. E of Thackery
	Hygroamblystegium tenax subsp. orthocladon (P.Beauv.) Wijk & Margad.	1925	E. C. Leonard	In Dibert's woods 1 mi E of Thackery
	Anomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Huebener	1926	E. C. Leonard	Folty's woods 1/4 mi SE of Thackery
	Cribraria intricata Schrad., 1797	1926	Leonard, G. M.	1/4 mi. southeast of Thachery

All 279 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 2630820. 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.