Shunk, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1986

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.

• 1908 USGS Napoleon quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Napoleon quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Malinta quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Malinta quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Malinta quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Shunk between 2020 and 2020, burning about 8 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:

• Countryside Estates
• Damascus (historical)
• Napoleon
• Liberty Center
• Valleybrook Estates
• Cloverleaf (historical)

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Museums hold 138 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shunk between 1898 and 1974: 124 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C.R. Neiswander, Claud Revere Neiswander 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
	Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.	1919	W.G. Stover	Liberty Center
	Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 1775	1937	F. Bower
	Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934)	1939	Claud Revere Neiswander
	Dromogomphus spinosus Selys, 1854	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Dromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Libellula luctuosa Burmeister, 1839	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Perithemis tenera (Say, 1840)	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Holgate
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Holgate
	Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz	1927	Moseley, E.L.	Wabash RR, Washington Twp
	Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	MB Troutman	Bad Creek, near and at border.
	Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1927	MB Trautman	Bad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co.

All 138 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shunk: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Henry County

The National Weather Service names Shunk in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 Henry 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 1046254. 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.