Pursell, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 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.

• 1910 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Laurelville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS South Bloomingville quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pursell (historical) between 2009 and 2020, burning about 17 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:

• Cedar Falls (historical)
• Cedar Grove
• South Bloomingville
• Haynes
• Mound Crossing
• Rockhouse (historical)

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Museums hold 2,935 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pursell (historical) between 1874 and 1975: 1,958 Animalia, 560 Plantae, 368 Fungi, 33 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A VERWYST, A. L. Welden 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
	Bonasa Stephens, 1819	1874	not recorded	Lancaster or Sugar Grove, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Stamnaria americana Massee & Morgan	1894	W. A. Kellerman
	Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 1799	1910	Fulton, B. B.	Hocking Co., Ohio
	Mniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)	1910	Bales, B. R.	I mi W of S Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	Bales, B. R.	1 mi W of South Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1911	Bales, B. R.	South Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Polioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1911	not recorded	2 1/2 mi E of Bloomingville, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758)	1912	not recorded	Crane Hollow, 8 mi E of Haines P.O. or 12 mi SW of Logan, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Eratoneura hartii (Gillette, 1898)	1915	Dwight Moore DeLong
	Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1927	Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)	Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1927	C. E. O'Neal
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate

All 2,935 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1067404. 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.

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