Porter, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1981

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 Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Vinton quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Vinton quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Porter between 2006 and 2020, burning about 182 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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:

• Bidwell
• Prospect Hill (historical)
• Evergreen
• Harrisburg
• Woods Mill
• Fairview

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Museums hold 386 specimens collected within 10 miles of Porter between 1862 and 1974: 169 Animalia, 138 Fungi, 66 Plantae, 11 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., Bryant, J.C. 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
	Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902	1900	[Not Stated]	Vinton
	Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1900	not recorded
	Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Vinton
	Carex communis var. communis	1862	W. M. Canby	Cheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
	Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.	1891	Millspaugh C. F.	Point Pleasant
	Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1891	Millspaugh C. F.	Point Pleasant
	Uromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 1847	1891	Millspaugh C. F.	Point Pleasant
	unnamed	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Animalia	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Arthromacra aenea	1900	not recorded	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Chrysotus Meigen, 1824	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
	Chrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 1924	1900	none specified	Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 386 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Porter: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous. 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 Gallia County

The National Weather Service names Porter in 1 storm report between 1997 and 1997: 1 hail. 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 Gallia 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 1063429. 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.