Salem Center, 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
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Salem Center between 2007 and 2020, burning about 82 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:

• Hanesville
• Danville
• Buckhorn (historical)
• Point Rock
• Bradbury
• Carpenter

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Museums hold 141 specimens collected within 10 miles of Salem Center between 1905 and 1961: 113 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. Mote 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
	Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1905	Ricker P. L.	Bidwell
	Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Heterakidae	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Oesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 1890	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
	Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Leading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
	Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp

All 141 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Salem Center in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 Meigs County

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 1057999. 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.