Ratcliffburg, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1992

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 Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Ratcliffburg quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ratcliffburg between 2006 and 2020, burning about 158 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:

• Bee (historical)
• Allensville
• Cox (historical)
• Ray
• Eagle Mills
• Jimtown

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Museums hold 1,299 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ratcliffburg between 1912 and 1975: 1,245 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer et al. 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
	Calodon	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
	Calvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan	1936	Cooke, William Bridge	Little Salt Creek
	Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)	1940	not recorded	South Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township
	Robinia hispida L.	1912	Crawford, C.G.	southern Ohio
	Coleosporium viburni Arthur	1926	Hedgcock G. G.	Jackson 7 miles Northwest
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Pigeon Creek, within Vinton Co, Vinton County, township n/a
	Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek tributary, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
	Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Salt Creek, within Benton township, near South Bloomingville, Benton township
	Regulus satrapa Lichtenstein, 1823	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Canter's Cave, Jackson, Ohio, USA

All 1,299 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Ratcliffburg in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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 Vinton 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 1062960. 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.