Ruby, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 2002

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.

• 1906 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Ruby (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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:

• Good Hope
• Sand Fork
• Boggs (historical)
• Hollis (historical)
• Patriot
• Angel

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Museums hold 165 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ruby (historical) between 1888 and 1975: 145 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., C. Gilbert & J. Henshall, C.J. Drake 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
	Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1939	D. Moots	Sharps Creek At Aid, Aid Township
	Macrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
	Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Near Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
	Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
	Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
	Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
	Percina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
	Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854	1899	[Not Stated]	Waterloo
	Alternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) J.A.Elliott	1904	Sheldon J. L.	Mercers Bottom
	Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.	1904	Sheldon John L.	Mercers Bottom
	Macrosporium cucumerinum Ellis & Everh.	1904	Sheldon John L.	Mercers Bottom
	Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1904	Sheldon John L.	Ben Lomond

All 165 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067565. 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.