Stringtown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1928 1991

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.

• 1928 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:48000
• 1931 USGS Higginsport quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Union 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 2 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 2003 and 2003, burning about 1 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:

• Decatur
• Neel
• Redoak
• Clems Shady Nook Park
• East Ripley
• Hestoria

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 300 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stringtown between 1843 and 1974: 260 Animalia, 33 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Ahles, H.E. 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
	Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1938	R. Rhoades	Small Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township
	Physcomitrium immersum Sull.	1843	W. S. Sullivant; A. Gray	ad fluminis Ohio ripas prope Maysville, Kentucky [bank of Ohio River, near Maysville]
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	Kellerman W. A.	Cedar Hill
	Stictis Pers., 1800	1883	Kellerman W. A.	Cedar Hill
	Valsa ludibunda Sacc.	1885	Rev. C. H. Demetrio	(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
	Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Cercospora sordida Sacc.	1899	King H. B.	Ripley
	Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera peckii U.Braun	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley
	Microsphaera ravenelii Berk.	1899	Patterson Flora W.	Ripley
	Polyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.	1899	Patterson F. W.	Ripley

All 300 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stringtown in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 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 Brown 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 1049217. 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.