Slocum, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 2002

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.

• 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1911 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Sciotoville quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Minford quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Porter Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Slocum between 1997 and 2020, burning about 462 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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:

• Camp Bennett
• Rigrish Addition
• Slocum Heights
• Crestview Park
• Fair Oaks
• Sciotodale

Every fire recorded in Scioto County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 623 specimens collected within 10 miles of Slocum between 1884 and 1975: 561 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 24 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.P. Morgan, Ahles, H.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
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1884	H. Mores	Scioto River
	Bovistella Morgan	1885	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan	1893	A.P. Morgan	Preston
	Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819	1885	Ch. R. Orcutt	Scioto River
	Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm.	1889	Craig M.	Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River
	Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829	1896	not recorded	Scioto River
	Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)	1897	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
	Peronospora polygoni Halst.	1897	F.L. Stevens
	Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1897	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA
	Sympetrum Newman, 1833	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth
	Sympetrum obtrusum (Hagen, 1867)	1897	J. Hine	Portsmouth

All 623 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Slocum: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Iron, Aluminum, Silica, Titanium. 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 Scioto 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 1076915. 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.