Ruraldale, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1924 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1927 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1902 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 10 fires within 5 miles of Ruraldale between 2001 and 2019, burning about 6 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:

• Emerson Heights
• North Hills
• Emerson
• Grand View
• Oakwood Park
• Longvue

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Museums hold 1,288 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ruraldale between 1853 and 1975: 1,200 Animalia, 54 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Drew, A. L. McElhose 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
	Ustilago avenae (Pers.) Rostr.	1923	W.G. Stoner	Marietta
	Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.	1932	C. May	Marietta
	Thelephora laciniata (Pers.) Pers.	1932	L.W.R.J.	Nursery, Marietta
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1853	E. Andrews	Marietta, Ohio
	Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)	1879	W. Holden	Ohio River, Near Marietta
	Necturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1886	Georg Baur	Marietta
	Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Shufeldt, R.	Marietta
	Progne subis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Shufeldt, R.	Marietta
	Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1896	A. D. Selby	Rainbow.
	Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni	1896	F.L. Stevens	Marietta
	Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)	1897	Sterki, Victor	Marietta
	Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)	1897	Sterki, Victor	Marietta

All 1,288 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ruraldale: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Chromium, Iron. 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 Washington 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 1050583. 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.