Pekin, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1986

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.

• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1942 USGS Steubenville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Knoxville quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Pekin between 2010 and 2020, burning about 32 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:

• Island Creek
• Mellwood Acres
• Lake Lodge
• Overlook Hills
• Pleasant Hill
• Beechwood

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Museums hold 633 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pekin between 1836 and 1974: 368 Animalia, 222 Plantae, 42 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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
	Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1836	Jewett
	Polygonum erectum L.	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
	Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link	1902	W. A. Kellerman
	Carex hirsutella Mack.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Elymus hystrix L.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Galium circaezans Michx.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	near Steubenville
	Hypericum mutilum L.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Hypericum punctatum Lam.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville
	Luzula echinata (Small) F.J.Herm.	1877	Mertz, H.N.	Steubenville

All 633 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pekin: 1 plant, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Chromium, Iron, Clay. 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 Jefferson County

The National Weather Service names Pekin in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 Jefferson 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 1044361. 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.