Tranquility, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1918 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.

• 1918 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Seaman quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

Abstracts Form Original Adams County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records 2 D, published 1829 names this settlement in its chapter on Scott 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 34 fires within 5 miles of Tranquility between 2003 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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:

• Irvington (historical)
• Youngsville
• Jessup
• May Hill
• Mount Leigh (historical)
• Mount Zion (historical)

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 715 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tranquility between 1866 and 1975: 367 Animalia, 249 Fungi, 81 Plantae, 18 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. J. Sharp, A. P. Boesel 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
	Puccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel	1879	A. B. Seymour	Adams County
	Puccinia smilacis Schwein.	1900	W.A. Kellerman
	Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill	1929	Benedict, H.	near Fawcett
	Asplenium ruta-muraria L.	1866	C. B. Dyer
	Pleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt	1866	C. B. Dyer
	Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931)	1903	not recorded
	Hebata vitis (Göthe, 1875)	1903	not recorded
	Acroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 1991	1925	Clarence H. Kennedy
	Baeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1925	Muegel, Harry R.	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia cristatella Tuck.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
	Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.	1925	Braun, E. Lucy	Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 715 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tranquility in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 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 Adams 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 1061700. 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.