Proctor, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43072. The Survey maps it on the Thackery quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1914 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1916 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS St. Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Thackery quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
In the 1881 county history
162,413 words on this townshipThe county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Jackson Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Jackson Township - 162,413 words.
Fires nearby
4 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Proctor (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 11 July 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 743 shownMuseums hold 743 specimens collected within 10 miles of Proctor (historical) between 1842 and 1975: 558 Animalia, 136 Plantae, 35 Fungi, 10 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. T. Hotchkiss, A.R. Gaufin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw. | 1874 | Beardslee, H.C. | Cedar Swamp |
![]() | Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger | 1926 | E.C. Leonard | Chapmans Creek, 1 mile east of Thackery |
![]() | Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) W.R.Buck | 1842 | W. S. Sullivant | Cedar Swamps, 6 mi S of Urbana |
![]() | Ctenidium malacodes Mitt. | 1876 | H. J. Biddlecome | Cedar Swamp |
![]() | Ctenidium molluscum (Hedw.) Mitt. | 1876 | E. J. Spence | 10.5 miles north of Springfield |
![]() | Geocalyx graveolens (Schrad.) Nees | 1876 | not recorded | Cedar Swamp, near Urbana |
![]() | Thuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1876 | H. J. Biddlecome | Cedar Swamp |
![]() | Thuidium tamariscinum (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1876 | not recorded | Cedar Swamp |
| Trichocolea biddlecomiae Austin | 1876 | H. J. Biddlecome | Cedar Swamp | |
![]() | Amblystegium serpens (Hedw.) Schimp. | 1877 | not recorded | Cedar Swamp |
| Aneura pinguis (L.) Dumort. | 1877 | not recorded | Cedar Swamp, Urbana | |
![]() | Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1877 | not recorded | Cedar Swamp |
All 743 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darnell | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Thackery | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Christiansburg | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Terre Haute | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Paris Court East | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Paris | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Paris Court West | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Nettleton (historical) | 6.9 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1077606. 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.





















