South Findlay, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 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.

• 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Findlay city, in the words of 1903.

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of South Findlay between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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:

• Chateau East
• Eastowne Estates
• Findlay
• Highland Estates
• Wineland (historical)

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Museums hold 378 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Findlay between 1883 and 1974: 360 Animalia, 18 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, CL & LC Hubbs, CLARENCE CLARK 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
	Valsa nivea (Hoffm.) Fr.	1906	F. O. Grover	Near Black Swamp, Oberlin.
	Notropis boops Gilbert, 1884	1883	Kirsch, P. H	Blanchard River, Findlay
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findlay, Ohio
	Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1893	P. Kirsch	Blanchard River, Findley, Ohio
	Regina septemvittata (Say, 1825)	1893	not recorded	Findlay, Blanchard River
	Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Arlington
	Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Helminthosporium sorokinianum Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Findlay
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
	Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1925	CL & LC Hubbs	Eagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage

All 378 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of South Findlay: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Hancock 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 1063613. 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.