Torch, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

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.

• 1906 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1924 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Lubeck quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Lubeck quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Torch between 1998 and 2019, burning about 35 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:

• Youba
• Hockingport
• Ireland
• Beebe
• Coolville
• Frost

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 130 specimens collected within 10 miles of Torch between 1928 and 1974: 129 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, C. Weatherby, Dennis, D. M. & Adler, K. K. 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
	Cynips Linnaeus, 1758	1928	A. C. Kinsey	Coolville
	Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
	Eurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
	Gyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)	1931	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
	Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Fairfield Twp., Washington Co., Ohio
	Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
	Noturus eleutherus Jordan, 1877	1932	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Shurrager, P.	Hocking River, near Guysville, ~2.2 mi SW of Stewart, Rome township
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township
	Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Hocking River, at mouth, at Hockingport OH, Troy Township
	Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Hocking River, at mouth, at Hockingport OH, Troy Township
	Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township

All 130 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Torch: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Torch in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 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 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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061698. 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.