Vernon, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1898 2002

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.

• 1898 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Pedro quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Pedro quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Pedro quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Pedro quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Pedro quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Vernon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,808 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 97 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:

• Moulton (historical)
• Buckhorn Furnace
• Buckhorn
• Cannons Creek
• Center Station
• Dean (historical)

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Museums hold 218 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vernon between 1896 and 1975: 210 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Kennedy, C. N. Wander, C. R. Neiswander 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 clematidis DC.	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1896	F.L. Stevens
	Planesticus Bonaparte, 1854	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)	1898	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1898	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Cyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)	1899	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854	1899	[Not Stated]	Waterloo
	Sitta canadensis Linnaeus, 1766	1899	not recorded	South Webster, Ohio, USA
	Holcocephala calva (Loew, 1872)	1926	C. Kennedy	[not stated]

All 218 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Vernon: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Lawrence County

The National Weather Service names Vernon in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Lawrence 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 1077113. 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.