The Plains, Ohio

The Plains grew from 3,080 to 3,140 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1980

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 Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Athens quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS The Plains quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS The Plains quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS The Plains quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS The Plains quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS The Plains quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Athens township, in the words of 1869.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of The Plains between 2003 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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:

• Beaumont
• Chauncey
• Glen Ebon
• Hamley Run
• New Floodwood
• Brookville

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Museums hold 1,284 specimens collected within 10 miles of The Plains between 1896 and 1975: 1,072 Animalia, 154 Plantae, 48 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813	1896	F. L. Stevens	Athens County
	Ambrosia bidentata Michx.	1969	William G. Gambill Jr.
	Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.	1896	Selby, A.D.	Caananville
	Aristida longespica var. longespica	1898	Selby, A.D.	Pleasanton
	Perlesta Banks, 1906	1898	N. Roberts
	Quercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.	1898	Selby, A.D.	Pleasanton
	Diospyros virginiana L.	1899	A. D. Selby	Marshfield
	Salix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
	Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.	1899	Selby, A.D.	Marshfield
	Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta	1902	Morse, M. (Max)	Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
	Melasmia Lév., 1846	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Athens

All 1,284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of The Plains: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Athens County

The National Weather Service names The Plains in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 Athens 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 1077041. 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.