West Junction, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1992

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 Waverly quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Richmond Dale quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Richmond Dale quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Richmond Dale quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of West Junction between 2005 and 2019, burning about 141 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:

• Londonderry
• Canada (historical)
• Lickskillet
• Richmond Dale
• Rittenours
• Vigo

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Museums hold 740 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Junction between 1923 and 1975: 675 Animalia, 44 Fungi, 16 Plantae, 5 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. Spreitzer, Andrew J. Penniman 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
	Aceria ulmicola Nalepa, 1909	1923	Miller, A. E. (August E.)	Richmond Dale, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Salt Creek, near US 50, east of Londonderry OH, Liberty Township
	Etheostoma variatum Kirtland, 1840	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Hybopsis Agassiz, 1854	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Micropterus dolomieu dolomieu Lacepède, 1802	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Notropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Noturus flavus Rafinesque, 1818	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township
	Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Salt Creek, near US 50, east of Londonderry OH, Liberty Township
	Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Salt Creek, near US 50, east of Londonderry OH, Liberty Township

All 740 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of West Junction: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Ross 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 1063086. 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.