Platform, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 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.

• 1906 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1968 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1976 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Platform between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,256 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 were 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:

• Athalia
• Miller
• Polkadotte
• Scottown
• Okey
• Cebee

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Museums hold 312 specimens collected within 10 miles of Platform between 1840 and 1974: 288 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beale J. M., C.M. Davidson, Collector(s): W. Perrygo 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
	Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1892	W.A. Kellerman	Symmes Creek
	Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
	Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Guyandotte River
	Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1903	Beale J. M.	Guyandotte
	Cladosporium carpophilum Thüm.	1906	C.M. Davidson
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Ricker A. J.	Aid
	Puccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton	1919	Ricker A. J.	Aid
	Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)	1921	George C. Withey	Deering, 11 miles east of
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1929	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
	Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)	1929	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
	Terrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)	1929	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Union Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio
	Calopteryx Leach, 1815	1930	not recorded	Guyandotte

All 312 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Platform in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 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 Lawrence 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 1063425. 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.