Portland, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Keno quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Portland between 1996 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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:

• Elden (historical)
• Hazael
• Rolandus
• Stiversville
• Bald Knobs
• Oldtown Flats

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Museums hold 286 specimens collected within 10 miles of Portland between 1885 and 1973: 226 Animalia, 35 Fungi, 22 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Balser, G., Blankenbaker, et al., C. H. Jones 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
	Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.	1940	Carroll, G.	Big Spruce Creek
	Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée	1945	Cooke, V.	Ravenswood
	Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub	1964	Wistendahl, J.D.	Athens. Sportsman Club Road, roadside ravine. Forked Run State Park.
	Opheodrys aestivus Linnaeus, 1766	1885	not recorded	Ripley Landing
	Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle	1905	Post, A. L.	Millwood
	Alternaria solani Sorauer	1905	Post A. Lee	Millwood
	Puccinia rubigo-vera (DC.) G.Winter	1905	Johnson T. C.	Millwood
	Septoria graminum Desm.	1905	Johnson T. C.	Millwood
	Ascochyta hydrangeae (Ellis & Everh.) Aksel	1906	Sheldon John L.	Ravenswood
	Cercospora angustata Chupp & Solheim	1906	Sheldon J. L.	Ravenswood
	Cercospora ribis Earle	1906	Sheldon John L.	Ravenswood
	Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.	1906	Sheldon John L.	Ravenswood

All 286 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Portland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 Meigs County

The National Weather Service names Portland in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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 Meigs 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 1063431. 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.