Shannon, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 1966

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 Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Frazeysburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Dresden quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000

An account from the chapter on Muskingum township, in the words of 1882.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Shannon between 2012 and 2020, burning about 126 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:

• Irville
• Claypools (historical)
• Pleasant Valley (historical)
• Black Run
• Cottage Hill
• Dillon View

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Museums hold 271 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shannon between 1866 and 1974: 207 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Andreas, Barbara; Cusick, Allison, Bogue, E.E. 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
	Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.	1893	Jones, H.L.	Toboso
	Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey	1898	Selby, A.D.	Trinway
	Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932 (fossil)	1916	Wilber Stout	Vanport. Hopewell Township
	Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray	1866	Day, D.F.	Dresden
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills, Barrs Mills
	Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills
	Cladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.	1894	Bogue, E.E.	Black Hand
	Lysimachia quadriflora Sims	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Smilax herbacea L.	1894	Moseley, E.L.	Licking Gorge
	Davainea Blanchard, 1891	1912	E. Gay	Janesville
	Hebata esuma (Goding, 1890)	1917	not recorded
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1926	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)	Flint Ridge, Licking Co., Ohio

All 271 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shannon: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Muskingum County

The National Weather Service names Shannon in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 1049168. 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.

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.