Ritters, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1990

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.

• 1913 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1944 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Fayette quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ritters (historical) in 2019, burning about 5 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:

• Denson
• Powers

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 533 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ritters (historical) between 1893 and 1974: 529 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, CHAS M BUTLER, CLARENCE CLARK 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
	Puccinia menthae Pers.	1893	Fink B.	Fayette
	Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1909	CHAS M BUTLER	MORENCI
	Ambloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
	Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
	Hybopsis biguttatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
	Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
	Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
	Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
	Catocala parta Guenée, 1852	1931	W.C. Stinson	Chelsea; 42.318092 -84.020503
	Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1932	ALVIN PYLE	3 MI N MORENCI
	Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)	1938	Trautman & Perlmutter	Bear Creek, 1 mi SW of Lyons, Royalton Twp, trib Raisin River

All 533 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ritters (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

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 1080962. 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.