Spencer, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1908 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• William Denison Houselisted 1982 · 0.5 miles away

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 Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1910 USGS Conesville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000

History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Salem 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 14 fires within 5 miles of Spencer between 2012 and 2020, burning about 55 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:

• Adamsville
• Adams Mills
• Rock Cut
• Wills Town (historical)
• Ellis
• Ferncliff (historical)

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,614 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spencer between 1866 and 1975: 1,261 Animalia, 330 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 7 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, A. Spreitzer, 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
	Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray	1866	Day, D.F.	Dresden
	Frullania eboracensis Lehm.	1890	W. C. Werner
	Porella pinnata L.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills, Barrs Mills
	Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills
	Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey	1898	Selby, A.D.	Trinway
	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).

All 1,614 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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 1067308. 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.