Shawtown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1995

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.

• 1915 USGS Marengo quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Marengo quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1995 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shawtown between 2012 and 2012, burning about 1 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:

• Cardington
• Fulton
• Morehouse (historical)
• South Woodbury
• Westfield

Every fire recorded in Morrow County

Museums hold 377 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shawtown between 1837 and 1975: 260 Animalia, 77 Fungi, 29 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.P. Morgan, Beardslee, H.C., Bird, C. 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
	Phyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew	1883	Kellerman	Ohio
	Agaricus velutipes Curtis	1837	J.R. Paddock
	Sagittaria latifolia Willd.	1837	Frank B
	Sicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius	1837	Frank B	in civitatate Ohio
	Polyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.	1838	not recorded
	Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.	1838	not recorded
	Equisetum arvense L.	1870	Beardslee, H.C.	Moist soil.
	Sphaeria ulmea Fr.	1880	W. A. Kellermann	Ohio
	Phyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.	1882	Kellerman	Ohio
	unnamed	1883	Kellerman	Ohio
	Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Ohio
	Botrytis vulgaris (Link) Fr.	1883	Dr. W. A. Kellerman	Ohio

All 377 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.

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 1063011. 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.