Valley Ford, 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.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Albany quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Valley Ford between 2009 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• Mount Blanco
• Carpenter
• Zeal (historical)
• Dyesville
• Point Rock
• Martinsburg (historical)

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 123 specimens collected within 10 miles of Valley Ford between 1912 and 1954: 117 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, D. Mote, H. Shamel 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
	Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Heterakidae	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Oesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 1890	1912	D. Mote	Carpenter
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
	Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
	Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
	Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp

All 123 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Valley Ford: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Meigs 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 1049265. 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.