Somerton, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1994

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 Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Woodsfield quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000

Centennial History of Belmont County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens., published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Somerset 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 13 fires within 5 miles of Somerton between 2014 and 2019, burning about 135 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:

• New Castle
• Boston
• Hunter
• Temperanceville
• Baileys Mills
• Hogsink

Every fire recorded in Belmont County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 124 specimens collected within 10 miles of Somerton between 1887 and 1975: 113 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Goff, Cusick, A.W., DAVID M SEVER 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
	Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1971	Cusick, A.W.	disturbed beech woods; St. Rt. 26, just S., Co. Rt. 92, Sect 21, Goshen Twp.
	Blephilia hirsuta (Pursh) Benth.	1887	Koenig, A.	near Temperanceville
	unnamed	1905	Laughlin Emma E.	Barnesville
	Merulius incarnatus (S.Ito & S.Imai) Spirin & Zmitr.	1905	Laughlin Emma E.	Barnesville
	Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray	1907	Laughlin, E.E.	Barnesville
	Geastrum triplex Jungh.	1907	Laughlin Emma E.	Barnesville
	Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.	1907	Laughlin Emma E.	Barnesville
	Botrychium dissectum Spreng.	1919	Laughlin, E.E.	Barnesville
	Colinus virginianus mexicanus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1935	Hicks,L.E.	Jerusalem
	Cephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.	1938	M. A. Taylor	Long Run.
	Sympiesis viridula (Thomson, 1878)	1938	W.G. Bradley
	Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1939	A. Goff	Bend Fork Creek

All 124 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Somerton: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous, Limestone, General. 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 Belmont County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somerton in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 Belmont 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 1065344. 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.