Switzer, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 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.

• Frederick Kindleberger Stone House and Barnlisted 1980 · 1.0 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.

• 1905 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1940 USGS Clarington quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Cameron quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Moundsville quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Cameron quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Switzer between 1999 and 2020, burning about 115 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:

• Bingham
• Beallsville
• Dwight
• Stillhouse Run (historical)
• Clarington
• Cline

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 279 specimens collected within 10 miles of Switzer between 1901 and 1975: 272 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew, E.A., Buker, W.E., David M. Dennis 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
	Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.	1924	L.L. Lehman
	Irpex fuscescens (Schwein.) Schwein.	1931	F. O. Grover	S of Oak point, woods
	Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Cyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Elliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Fusconaia subrotunda (I.Lea, 1831)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington
	Obliquaria reflexa Rafinesque, 1820	1901	Sterki, Victor	Clarington

All 279 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Switzer: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Bituminous, Silica. 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 Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Switzer in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 hail. 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 Monroe 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 1046909. 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.