Postboy, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 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.

• 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Kimbolton quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Postboy between 2014 and 2018, burning about 108 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:

• Coalport
• Creekside Crossing
• Mizers
• Newcomerstown
• Bernice
• Berwyn (historical)

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Museums hold 71 specimens collected within 10 miles of Postboy between 1928 and 1973: 57 Animalia, 14 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Borror, D.J., Buker, W.E., Cusick, A.W. 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
	Cambarus bartonii bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1960	Holt	Newcomerstown, 3.5 Mile NW Of junction Highway 21 & 258 on 21
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Notropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Notropis volucellus volucellus	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Semotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Tuscarawas River, near mouth of Dunlap Creek
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Washington Twp., Tuscarawas Co., Ohio

All 71 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Postboy: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron. 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 Tuscarawas 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 1062952. 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.