Purity, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1966

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 Newark quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Newark quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Hickman quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Purity between 2014 and 2020, burning about 30 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:

• Long Run (historical)
• Rain Rock
• Rocky Fork
• Fallsburg
• Hickman
• Tilton Crossroads

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Museums hold 869 specimens collected within 10 miles of Purity between 1894 and 1975: 855 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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
	Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1894	Mills, W. C.	Mt. Vernon, 1 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1896	Parker, J. B.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Colaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1897	Parker, J. D.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Polioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1897	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Vireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1897	Williamson, E. G.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Coccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)	1898	Parker, J. D.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	Parker, J. P.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1898	Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Piranga Vieillot, 1808	1898	Parker, J. D.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1899	Mills, W. C.	Mt Vernon, 2 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
	Podiceps grisegena holboellii Reinhardt, 1853	1899	Parker, J. B.	Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA

All 869 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Purity: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 Licking County

The National Weather Service names Purity in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 Licking 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 1044801. 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.