Roberts, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1984

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 Zanesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Crooksville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Lancaster quadrangle1:100000

History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Newton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Roberts (historical) between 2013 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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:

• White Cottage
• Avondale
• Darlington
• Elizabeth
• Lewis (historical)
• Moxahala Park

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 675 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roberts (historical) between 1873 and 1973: 617 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Adams, W. M., Adams, William 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
	Scleroderris rubra Morgan	1891	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Peziza nana Massee & Morgan	1895	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Frullania saxicola Austin	1896	William C. Werner
	Poa cuspidata Nutt.	1873	W. M. Canby	Zanesville.
	Frullania eboracensis Lehm.	1890	W. C. Werner
	Porella pinnata L.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Fissidens adianthoides Hedw.	1892	W. C. Werner	Fultonham
	Lycogala exiguum Morgan, 1893	1893	Morgan A.P.	Preston
	Lachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Peziza morganii Massee	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
	Tapesia derelicta Morgan	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston

All 675 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Roberts (historical): 5 producers, 4 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Muskingum 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 1054614. 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.