Pleasant Valley, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1966

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.

• 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Toboso quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

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 Hopewell Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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:

• Cottage Hill
• Claypools (historical)
• Irville
• Dillon View
• Shannon
• Stonehenge

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 602 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Valley (historical) between 1866 and 1974: 519 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. M., Adler, K. K. 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
	Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.	1893	Jones, H.L.	Toboso
	Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932 (fossil)	1916	Wilber Stout	Vanport. Hopewell Township
	Stereum albobadium (Schwein.) Fr.	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
	Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray	1866	Day, D.F.	Dresden
	Poa cuspidata Nutt.	1873	W. M. Canby	Zanesville.
	Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.	1894	Bogue, E.E.	Black Hand
	Lysimachia quadriflora Sims	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Smilax herbacea L.	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Gyromitra brunnea Underw.	1909	Moore S. R.	Zanesville
	Davainea Blanchard, 1891	1912	E. Gay	Janesville
	Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882	1920	A.E. Miller
	Macrophya Dahlbom, 1835	1920	A.E. Miller

All 602 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Valley (historical): 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065511. 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.