Portersville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 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.

• 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS New Lexington quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Deavertown quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Deavertown quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Deavertown quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Deavertown quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Deavertown quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Deavertown quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Deavertown quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Portersville between 2013 and 2020, burning about 33 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:

• San Toy
• Alabama Hill
• Sayre
• Chapel Hill
• Oakfield
• Yellowtown

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Museums hold 91 specimens collected within 10 miles of Portersville between 1890 and 1971: 70 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Coker W. C., Conan J. Taylor, Duvel, J.W.T 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
	Pucciniastrum hydrangeae (Magnus) Arthur	1891	W. A. Kellerman
	Phaeoceros carolinianus (Michx.) Prosk.	1890	W. C. Werner	Rendville.
	Anomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Huebener	1891	W. C. Werner	Rendville
	Anthoceros punctatus L.	1891	not recorded	Rendville
	Ascocoryne cylichnium (Tul.) Korf	1891	W. A. Kellerman
	Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Austin	1891	W. C. Werner
	Callicladium haldanianum (Grev.) H.A.Crum	1891	W. C. Werner	Rendville
	Frullania eboracensis Gottsche	1891	W. C. Werner	Rendville
	Hypnum jutlandicum Holmen & E.Warncke	1891	W. C. Werner	Rendville
	Panellus stipticus (Bull.) P.Karst.	1891	W. A. Kellerman	Rendville
	Puccinia coronata f. coronata	1891	W. A. Kellerman
	Puccinia punctata Link	1891	W. A. Kellerman

All 91 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Portersville in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 Perry 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 1076679. 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.