Sonora, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1910 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.

• 1910 USGS Philo quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Philo quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville East quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville East quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville East quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville East quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Zanesville East quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville quadrangle1:100000
• 1980 USGS Senecaville Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Zanesville East quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Sonora between 2002 and 2020, burning about 86 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:

• Eastlynd Acres
• Pleasant Grove
• Bridgeville
• Carlwick (historical)
• Georgetown
• Jackson (historical)

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Museums hold 1,723 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sonora between 1873 and 1975: 1,395 Animalia, 300 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 7 Unrecorded, 5 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, A.E. Miller, Adams, W. 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
	Scleroderris rubra Morgan	1891	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Peziza nana Massee & Morgan	1895	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Frullania saxicola Austin	1896	William C. Werner
	Poa cuspidata Nutt.	1873	W. M. Canby	Zanesville.
	Frullania eboracensis Lehm.	1890	W. C. Werner
	Porella pinnata L.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Lycogala exiguum Morgan, 1893	1893	Morgan A.P.	Preston
	Lachnum viridulum Massee & Morgan	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Peziza morganii Massee	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston (The no longer extant town of Preston, Ohio, was located in Hamilton County in the Miami River drainage).
	Tapesia derelicta Morgan	1905	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
	Bubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)	1908	A. H. Wright	New Concord

All 1,723 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sonora: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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 Muskingum County

The National Weather Service names Sonora in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 hail, 4 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 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 1049185. 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.