Rome, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1994

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.

• 1915 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Crestline quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Shiloh quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000

History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Bloominggrove 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 1 fire within 5 miles of Rome between 2020 and 2020, burning about 2 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:

• Amoy
• Carefree Estates
• Ganges
• London
• Myers (historical)
• Shelby

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 85 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rome between 1869 and 1971: 46 Animalia, 22 Fungi, 17 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, Chase, H. (Hazel), Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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
	Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton	1897	W. A. Kellerman
	Ustilago reiliana J.G.Kühn	1897	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
	Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb.	1869	N. L. Britton	northern Ohio
	Anemonella thalictroides (L.) Spach	1892	E. Wilkinson	Richland County
	Onoclea sensibilis L.	1892	Wilkinson, E.
	Helophorus lineatus (Say, 1823)	1898	Eric G. Chapman
	Hydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758)	1898	Eric G. Chapman
	Deconica atrorufa (Schaeff.) P.Karst.	1906	Kellerman, William Ashbrook	Columbus, Ohio State University, greenhouse
	Ribes cynosbati L.	1909	O. E. Jennings	2-3 mi. W of Plymouth.
	Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link	1909	O. E. Jennings	2-3 mi. W of Plymouth.
	Valsa Fr.	1913	Stevens N. E.	Windsor
	Conocephalus attenuatus (Scudder, 1869)	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Vermilion River, TR 608 RM 62.1, 1.14 miles west of Savannah OH, Clear Creek township

All 85 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rome: 2 past producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Richland County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rome in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2006: 2 hail. 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 Richland 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 1065245. 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.