Rosseau, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 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.

• 1910 USGS Mc Connelsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1880 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 6 fires within 5 miles of Rosseau between 2010 and 2019, burning about 8 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:

• Ringgold
• Chaneyville (historical)
• Elliott Crossroads
• Halls Valley (historical)
• Joetown
• Malta

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Museums hold 325 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rosseau between 1887 and 1973: 286 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A.D. Huryn, Adler, K. K. 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
	Cercis canadensis L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Gleditsia triacanthos L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Medicago lupulina L.	1961	William G. Gambill Jr.; Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.	Route 37, 3 miles east of Portersville.
	Peziza soleniiformis Ellis & Everh.	1887	Morgan
	Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood	1898	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	1899	Selby, A.D.	Palos
	Chondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)	1903	not recorded	McConnelsville
	Merulius incarnatus Schwein.	1906	Collector unspecified	McConnellsville
	Merulius corium (Pers.) Fr.	1908	Coker W. C.	Chapel Hill
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1911	B.R. Bales	Ringgold
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Ricker A. J.	MCCONNELSVILLE

All 325 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Rosseau in 1 storm report between 2013 and 2013: 1 flash 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 Morgan 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 1076773. 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.