Rowlesville, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1980

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.

• 1905 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Rowlesville between 2006 and 2019, burning about 202 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:

• Morgan Center
• Ewington
• Alice
• Durgan
• Eno
• Glen Summitt

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 81 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rowlesville between 1900 and 1971: 29 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. O´Dell 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
	Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902	1900	[Not Stated]	Vinton
	Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1900	not recorded
	Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Vinton
	Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
	Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Kellerman W. A.	Vinton
	Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
	Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1905	Ricker P. L.	Bidwell
	Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek tributary, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
	Ictalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1930	MB Trautman	Campaign Creek, Addison Twp
	Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812	1932	Long, C. F.	Vinton, Ohio, USA

All 81 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1062995. 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.