Porterfield, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1902 1994

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.

• 1902 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Little Hocking quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Belpre township, in the words of 1902.

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Porterfield between 1995 and 2019, burning about 49 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:

• Armenia (historical)
• Blennerhassett View
• Rockland
• Little Hocking
• Redbush
• Belpre

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Museums hold 340 specimens collected within 10 miles of Porterfield between 1877 and 1974: 172 Animalia, 146 Fungi, 19 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, Archer W. A., Archer, W. A. 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
	Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1922	E. Bartholomew
	Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1937	Blickle, A.H.	Parkersburg
	Petrova houseri Miller, 1959	1954	W. Miller	Veto
	Inula helenium L.	1877	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Sonchus asper (L.) Hill	1877	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Amaranthus spinosus L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Clinopodium vulgare L.	1878	Guttenberg, G.*	Parkersburg
	Scutellaria nervosa Pursh	1878	Guttenberg, G.	Parkersburg
	Rorippa palustris var. fernaldiana (Butters & Abbe) Stuckey	1891	C. F. Millspaugh	Parkersburg.
	Stephanoderes pini Hopkins, 1915	1900	D. Hopkins	[Not Stated]
	Uromyces asclepiadis Cooke	1902	W. A. Kellerman	Belpre
	Botryosphaeria ribis Grossenb. & Duggar	1927	Shear C. L.	Parkersburg

All 340 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Porterfield: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium. 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 Washington County

The National Weather Service names Porterfield in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 1 lightning, 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 Washington 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 1071054. 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.