Purdy Corners, 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 Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1903 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 19 fires within 5 miles of Purdy Corners between 2003 and 2020, burning about 191 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.

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:

• Minford
• Egypt
• Wallace Mills
• Gephart
• Harrison Furnace
• Harrison Mills

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Museums hold 861 specimens collected within 10 miles of Purdy Corners between 1885 and 1975: 733 Animalia, 85 Fungi, 38 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan; L.V. Morgan 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
	Bovistella Morgan	1885	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan	1893	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc.	1887	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.	1889	Craig M.	Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
	unnamed	1897	Morgan	Preston
	Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Philohela minor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Bloom Switch, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA

All 861 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Purdy Corners in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 8 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 Scioto 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 1077273. 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.