Van Meter, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1986

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.

• 1915 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Van Meter between 2004 and 2020, burning about 221 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:

• Piketon
• Sargents
• Jasper
• Rehm
• Riverdale
• Shyville

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Museums hold 1,712 specimens collected within 10 miles of Van Meter between 1889 and 1975: 1,546 Animalia, 118 Fungi, 46 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed), B. W. Evermann 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
	Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.	1896	F.L. Stevens	Columbus
	Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)	1909	not recorded	Scioto River, Piketon
	Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820	1909	not recorded	Piketon, Scioto River
	Asterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.	1889	C. J. Herrick	Waverly
	Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898	1889	not recorded	Waverly, Ohio, USA
	Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 1855	1894	Bean & B. Evermann	Scioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
	Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1894	B. W. Evermann	Cooperville; Scioto Cr
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1898	not recorded	Waverly, Ohio, USA
	Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	not recorded	Waverly, Ohio, USA
	Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Waverly, Ohio, USA
	Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Piketon, Ohio, USA
	Astragalinus Cabanis, 1851	1898	not recorded	Waverly, Ohio, USA

All 1,712 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Van Meter: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. 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 Pike 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 1065428. 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.