Rock Way, 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.

1904 1986

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.

• 1904 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Donnelsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Springfield township, in the words of 1881.

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rock Way between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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:

• Balentine Acres
• Beatty
• Broadview Acres
• Cedar Hills
• Durbin
• Eagle City

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Museums hold 1,417 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rock Way between 1840 and 1975: 954 Animalia, 338 Plantae, 122 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 73.7; J.H., ?, A JOHN 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
	Cystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell	1878	Beardslee, H.C.	near Springfield
	Conardia compacta (Müll.Hal.) H.Rob.	1910	H.S. Jewett	Neff Park, Yellow Springs
	Hygroamblystegium irriguum var. spinifolium Mönk.	1913	Henry S. Jewett	Neff Park
	Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx.	1840	Williams, M.G.	Springfield
	Staphylea trifolia L.	1840	Williams, M.G.	Springfield
	Funaria hygrometrica Hedw.	1846	not recorded	Springfield
	Bidens bipinnata L.	1870	J Y Bergen; T L Bergen	Yellow Springs
	Bryhnia graminicolor (Brid.) Grout	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	near Springfield
	Bryum pseudotriquetrum var. bimum (Schreb.) Lilj.	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	Springfield
	Hygroamblystegium tenax subsp. orthocladon (P.Beauv.) Wijk & Margad.	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	Springfield
	Schwetschkeopsis denticulata (Sull.) Broth.	1870	J. W. Eckfeldt	Springfield
	Amblystegium serpens var. angustifolium H.Lindb. ex Limpr.	1871	H. J. Biddlecome	Springfield

All 1,417 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Rock Way: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 Clark County

The National Weather Service names Rock Way in 8 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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 Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057960. 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.