Starr, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Union Furnace quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Starr between 2007 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Coonville
• Summit (historical)
• Union Furnace
• Ewing
• Haydenville
• Ilesboro

Every fire recorded in Hocking County

Museums hold 2,014 specimens collected within 10 miles of Starr between 1874 and 1975: 1,318 Animalia, 403 Plantae, 245 Fungi, 32 Protozoa, 11 Bacteria, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. N. Bragg, A. Tissot 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
	Bonasa Stephens, 1819	1874	not recorded	Lancaster or Sugar Grove, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Stamnaria americana Massee & Morgan	1894	W. A. Kellerman
	Phyllachora junci (Alb. & Schwein.) Fuckel	1901	W. A. K.; Kern E. H.	New Plymouth
	Puccinia helianthi Schwein.	1901	W. A. Kellerman	New Plymouth
	Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1927	Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)	Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Bryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.	1927	C. E. O'Neal
	Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Queer Creek, within Hocking County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
	Microtus pinetorum (Le Conte, 1830)	1927	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Goodhope Twp. Neotoma, Hocking Co., Ohio, USA
	Compsothlypis Cabanis, 1851	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Cryptotis parva (Say, 1823)	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Clear Cr., Hocking Co., Ohio, USA
	Helmitheros vermivorum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1928	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Clear Creek, Hocking, Ohio, USA
	Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1928	Thomas, E. S. (Edward S.) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Good Hope Twp.: Clear Cr. Valley, small pond, Hocking Co., Ohio

All 2,014 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Starr in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 Hocking 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 1076959. 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.

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.