Ruraldale, 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 Philo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Ruraldale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Ruraldale quadrangle1:24000

History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Ruraldale between 2012 and 2019, burning about 22 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:

• Museville
• Blue Rock
• Cedar Run
• High Hill
• Merriam
• Young Hickory

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 236 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ruraldale between 1916 and 1972: 224 Animalia, 12 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Starrett, J., Adams, William, 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
	Tabanus quinquevittatus Wiedemann, 1821	1916	O.
	Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878	1916	O.
	Anthophoridae	1916	not recorded
	Bombus vagans Smith, 1854	1916	P.R. Lowry
	Colletes nudus Robertson, 1898	1916	unknown
	Linognathus vituli (Linnaeus, 1758)	1920	P. R. Lowry
	Solenopotes capillatus Enderlein, 1904	1920	P. R. Lowry
	Strigiphilus Mjoberg, 1910	1920	P. R. Lowry
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1931	Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)	Harrison Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta	1931	not recorded	Philo, Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)	1935	Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)	Philo, Muskingum Co., Ohio
	Coluber constrictor constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1935	Maslowski, K. (Karl) & Dambach, C. A. (Charles A.)	Blue Rock Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio

All 236 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruraldale in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Muskingum 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 1070920. 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.